The customs surveillance service of the Tax Agency, in a joint operation with Civil Guard, has dismantled a criminal organization dedicated to the Import, storage and distribution of medications and illegal health products specifically related to the Aesthetic medicine; with actions in the provinces of Malaga, Cádiz, Córdoba and Seville.
Among the buyers of these substances were various legally established aesthetic clinics and other clandestinein addition to people who exercised this type of medicine work without official degree.
In total, four people have been arrested and 41 investigated for 53 crimes Against public health, fraud, professional intrusion and belonging to criminal organization; In the provinces of Alicante, Málaga, Madrid, Cádiz, Murcia, Córdoba and Seville, having apprehended large amounts of medications and illegal health products from Korea mainly, as well as material for its conditioning, storage and distribution.
The investigation began in 2023, following a series of information collected by the Central Civil Guard Operation This type of medical treatments were offered through social networks by people without due degree.
From Korea
In parallel, the Customs Risk Analysis Unit of Seville, formed by officials of the Customs Surveillance Service of the Tax Agency and Civil Guard agents, had been carrying out a significant number of apprehensions of medicines and illegal health products, mainly from the Republic of Koreawhose final recipients were directly or indirectly related to aesthetic medicine.
These unauthorized medications and health products in Spain, which used to be offered through the web pages of various Korean companies in the pharmaceutical sector, had a camouflaged entry into the national territory, normally protected by FAlsas content statements, to hinder its detection. Subsequently, they were stored by the members of the criminal organization, who, after carrying out the timely advertising of them, directly or through social media profiles distributed them to clandestine and personnel clinics not titled to carry out these interventions of specialized doctors in Medicine aesthetics.
The activity of the suppliers was not limited solely to the national territory, since shipments of the aforementioned were also detected Products to Portugal, In addition to having a network of people and bank accounts located in different countries for the concealment of the benefits that the criminal organization obtained with its illegal activity.
Home records
During the investigation exploitation phase, four home records have been made, specifically in San Pedro de Alcántara (Málaga), Torrevieja (Alicante) and Cartagena (Murcia), as well as 24 inspections in clinics and clandestine establishments in the provinces of Cádiz, Madrid, Malaga, Córdoba, Seville and Alicante, in which 40 apprehensions of medications and illegal health products have been carried out. In these actions, four people have been arrested and 41 investigated, those who are charged in total 53 crimes against public health, fraud, professional intrusion and belonging to criminal organization.
Botulinic toxin, hyaluronidase, hyaluronic acid, lidocaine, and plasma centrifugators within illegal medications apprehended in these actions, we must highlight 700 roads of botulinum toxin, 275 roads of hyaluronidase, more than 200 lidocaine containers, as well as more than one thousand preloaded syringes of hyaluronic acid, tension threads and specific machinery such as centrifuging be the one that appears on the labels. Although this criminal organization is taken for granted, complaints of possible harmed by the application of these treatments are currently being collected, there are cases of high gravity by the sequelae suffered after the application of these illegal substances by personnel without qualifying.
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