Agents of the UDYCO of the National Police, the Customs Surveillance of the Tax Agency and the EDOA of the Civil Guard Seven people arrested for drug trafficking and membership in a criminal organization, while seized more than 400 kilograms of cocaine in the port of Malaga.
According to reports, as part of periodic operations aimed at eradicating criminal groups operating in the port area, last year there were signs of activities linked to the extraction of large quantities of cocaine in installations on containers from South America according to the method blind hook either lost hook.
Faced with these suspicions, the operational groups of the three corps began actions within the framework of the operation Lost/Olive/Sunaimed at detecting cocaine trafficking and survey of different stevedores at the port of Malagawhich would be dedicated to carrying out extractions inside the premises of shipments of narcotics hidden in containers, taking advantage of legal commercial traffic and without the knowledge of the importing companies.
In September 2023 Members of the organization were detected preparing to extract drugs from a container positioned at the maritime terminal, they said in a statement.
The container was subject to close surveillance to prevent the action of the gang of stevedores and stop them at the time of extraction, although the people investigated, after an unsuccessful attempt at action, abandoned their plans and the units police went to the seizure of a reserve of 430 kilos of cocaine, valued at more than 20 million euros.
In the following months, investigative units identified members of the organization and intensified investigations. preventive control measures at the port of Malaga, with different inspection and surveillance actions.
This caused the change of modus operandi members of the gang, who twice attempted to recover stashes of cocaine hidden in torpedoes attached to container ships unloaded at port facilities.
In both cases His intentions were thwarted by intense police work carried out at the terminal, in which naval and air customs surveillance assets and submarine assets of the Civil Guard were deployed, in addition to the land assets of the three active corps.
Stops and searches
After obtaining sufficient evidence against the objectives of the investigation, during morning of October 30 Four stevedores, a worker from a service company that operates in the port of Malaga itself, as well as two other people linked to the logistics of this criminal organization and the laundering of its profits, were arrested.
Once the permits have been obtained from the judicial authority, the registration of three properties where different diving equipment and tools for rescuing narcotics attached to ships were found.
This action meant a major blow to organizations operating in the country dedicated to transporting cocaine taking advantage of international merchandise trade operations and introducing large quantities of narcotic substances at origin and extracting them at destination, taking advantage of the existing port structure.
The actions carried out, in collaboration with the prisoners, were made available disposal of the Court of Instruction number eight of Malagafor having been tasked with investigating the case since last year.
