The National Police, with the collaboration of the Colombian Police, the United States DEA and Europol, seized two suitcases at Barajas airport that concealed 250,000 drug tablets coming from this South American country. Some of the cargo found as part of Operation Blue Devil contained significant traces of ketamine (a veterinary anesthetic used as a narcotic in humans) and the dreaded fentanyl, the substance sweeping across North America.
The investigation began in late July with information from Colombia’s national police and Spanish agents that two large shipments of synthetic drug pills from their country were suspected of being sent to Spain.
The agents’ investigations made it possible to detect the presence in Colombia of a criminal organization that was trying to open a new route for the introduction of synthetic drugs into our country.
To transport the narcotic, the organization used commercial planes, coming from Bogotá and heading to Madrid, in which the people investigated, using airport personnel at the service of the criminal network and using “folded” suitcases » (with a counterfeit registration label), they hid the pills and sent them to our country.
During the investigation, which remains open, two sports bags were seized at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, containing 59 plastic bags containing 120,000 blue pills weighing more than 34 kilograms.
On another flight, at the same airport, two other sports bags containing 62 plastic bags were seized, in which 130,000 pills of the same type were found weighing more than 35 kilos.
During analyzes carried out on the seized pills, specialists from the General Commission of the Scientific Police detected significant traces of ketamine in the first shipment and in the second, the same narcotic substance with traces of fentanyl.
