The Spanish security forces have arrested nine people, four of them of Colombian nationality, suspected of forming an international drug trafficking gangl based in Madrid, which allegedly introduced cocaine through ports.
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The drugaccording to research, it came from South America, it was usually hidden in the acids of the batteries of industrial mechanical bulls (forklift trucks) and subsequently distributed in cars with a hidden compartment, the Spanish Police reported on Tuesday.
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The arrests were made in the provinces of Madrid, Ciudad Real (center) and Valencia (east). The investigation began in 2017, when, thanks to international police cooperation, a criminal organization established in the Spanish capital was detected. dedicated to drug trafficking on an international scale.
It mainly used the importation of merchandise transport containers to receive the drug in the ports of Barcelona (Spain) and Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
In September 2021, the researchers received information from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of the USA about this gang, specifically about the two main investigated, of Colombian nationality.
Based on numerous inquiries and surveillance operations, the agents gathered sufficient evidence to prove the existence of this organization, which was also engaged in money laundering through a front company.
At the end of last February, the Police detected a suspicious truck coming from Barcelona, which was moving industrial mechanical bulls to the town of Madridejos, in the province of Toledo (center).
The machinery was intervened and the police technicians needed four days to discover the new drug concealment system, made up of 32 packages of cocaine, weighing sixty kilos.INTERNATIONAL WRITING
*With information from EFE
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