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21-12-2022, 08:34 PM
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3,300 kilos of cocaine seized in the north of the Canary Islands.
The Civil Guard has intercepted a fishing boat with 3,300 kilograms of cocaine inside in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, specifically north of the Canary Islands, and bound for an undetermined point on the coast of Galicia, in an operation that has resulted in the arrest of 16 people.
Those responsible for this important shipment of cocaine belong to a criminal organization based in Galicia specialized in the introduction of large quantities of narcotic in national territory, using boats that simulated fishing campaigns in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, near African coasts.
Some members of the organization personally traveled to Senegal with the aim of personally organizing and coordinating this shipment of cocaine, taking care of both the chartering of the ship, and the hiring of the crew, having planned in the same way, which boats would go out to meet this ship as it approached its destination.
Once the roles of the different actors identified were established in this way, it was observed how they intensified different activities, all of them aimed at introducing a large consignment of cocaine on or near the Galician coasts.
In addition, the agents were also able to know, how the investigated group had "sophisticated" means for the transport of the narcotic through different Spanish provinces, which allowed them to dispense even with other shuttle vehicles that would warn of possible Police controls, having sophisticated methods of concealment in double hydraulic bottoms in the vehicles they used, to which was added the use of encrypted messaging between the communications of its members.
Cohesion of Civil Guard units
The investigation began at the beginning of 2022, after the agents detected a special activity of certain Police objectives, with the scope of fishing carried out by Galician fleets in African waters.
On December 18, agents of the Special Intervention Unit (UEI) and the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard, boarded the ship chartered by the Galician organization to the north of the Canary archipelago, after having been monitored discreetly by a plane of the Air Service of the Civil Guard for several hours once located.
In this boarding the three crew members of the investigated ship were arrested, as well as the 3,300 kilograms of cocaine already mentioned, which could be counted once unloaded in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where the ship was taken after boarding.
After these Events, the operation quickly precipitated on land, carrying out yesterday a total of thirteen arrests in the provinces of Pontevedra, Ourense and A Coruña in the fourteen searches practiced, which allowed the intervention of a kilogram of heroin, 1.5 kilograms of cocaine, 20,000 euros, high-end vehicles, encrypted electronic devices, sophisticated devices for detecting technical means, as well as abundant documentation and effects of great interest for the operation.
The operation, called 'Sugar Brown', has been directed by the Court of Instruction No. 1 of Vigo and by the Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office of Pontevedra, and carried out by the Team Against Organized Crime based in Galicia (ECO Galicia) of UCO together with the Organized Crime and Anti-Drug Team of the UOPJ of Pontevedra, with the participation of different Units of the same Command.
Thus, this international drug trafficking route is consolidated as one of the itineraries most used by large drug trafficking organizations, which consider it one of the safest and with the greatest guarantee of success for their interests.
And, the Civil Guard has been detecting for some time that certain Galician organizations have gradually increased their infrastructures to introduce drugs through this itinerary.
3,300 kilos of cocaine seized in the north of the Canary Islands.
The Civil Guard has intercepted a fishing boat with 3,300 kilograms of cocaine inside in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, specifically north of the Canary Islands, and bound for an undetermined point on the coast of Galicia, in an operation that has resulted in the arrest of 16 people.
Those responsible for this important shipment of cocaine belong to a criminal organization based in Galicia specialized in the introduction of large quantities of narcotic in national territory, using boats that simulated fishing campaigns in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, near African coasts.
Some members of the organization personally traveled to Senegal with the aim of personally organizing and coordinating this shipment of cocaine, taking care of both the chartering of the ship, and the hiring of the crew, having planned in the same way, which boats would go out to meet this ship as it approached its destination.
Once the roles of the different actors identified were established in this way, it was observed how they intensified different activities, all of them aimed at introducing a large consignment of cocaine on or near the Galician coasts.
In addition, the agents were also able to know, how the investigated group had "sophisticated" means for the transport of the narcotic through different Spanish provinces, which allowed them to dispense even with other shuttle vehicles that would warn of possible Police controls, having sophisticated methods of concealment in double hydraulic bottoms in the vehicles they used, to which was added the use of encrypted messaging between the communications of its members.
Cohesion of Civil Guard units
The investigation began at the beginning of 2022, after the agents detected a special activity of certain Police objectives, with the scope of fishing carried out by Galician fleets in African waters.
On December 18, agents of the Special Intervention Unit (UEI) and the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard, boarded the ship chartered by the Galician organization to the north of the Canary archipelago, after having been monitored discreetly by a plane of the Air Service of the Civil Guard for several hours once located.
In this boarding the three crew members of the investigated ship were arrested, as well as the 3,300 kilograms of cocaine already mentioned, which could be counted once unloaded in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where the ship was taken after boarding.
After these Events, the operation quickly precipitated on land, carrying out yesterday a total of thirteen arrests in the provinces of Pontevedra, Ourense and A Coruña in the fourteen searches practiced, which allowed the intervention of a kilogram of heroin, 1.5 kilograms of cocaine, 20,000 euros, high-end vehicles, encrypted electronic devices, sophisticated devices for detecting technical means, as well as abundant documentation and effects of great interest for the operation.
The operation, called 'Sugar Brown', has been directed by the Court of Instruction No. 1 of Vigo and by the Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office of Pontevedra, and carried out by the Team Against Organized Crime based in Galicia (ECO Galicia) of UCO together with the Organized Crime and Anti-Drug Team of the UOPJ of Pontevedra, with the participation of different Units of the same Command.
Thus, this international drug trafficking route is consolidated as one of the itineraries most used by large drug trafficking organizations, which consider it one of the safest and with the greatest guarantee of success for their interests.
And, the Civil Guard has been detecting for some time that certain Galician organizations have gradually increased their infrastructures to introduce drugs through this itinerary.