27-06-2022, 09:05 PM
Radio Sintonia:
One of the most active organizations in cocaine trafficking has been dismantled in the Canary Islands.
Agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard have proceeded to the total dismantling of a criminal organization based in the Canary Islands, composed entirely of citizens of Spanish nationality, being one of the most active in large-scale cocaine trafficking, with connections with the most important international criminal organizations.
The criminal network maintained connections with the Italian mafia of Calabria, the Skaljari clan of Montenegro, as well as the cartels of Brazil and Colombia, with whom they were related in their criminal activity.
The dismantled criminal organization would have established several channels of cocaine introduction into the Canary Islands, and would have an important logistics for the distribution of narcotics in the archipelago, using, among other methods, vehicles with hidden hydraulic compartments -coves-, which had been specifically equipped with an opening system to which access was only possible if a combination of switches was known and executed and executed. devices of the vehicles themselves, which were known only to the members of the organization. They also had sailboat-type vessels prepared to receive cocaine from mother ships on the high seas.
Due to the intense work of surveillance with respect to the different investigated, the agents managed to find out the circuit that the organization used for the movement of Money from illicit activities, using economic mules, people who would transport significant amounts of Money between the Canary Islands, all from the profits of drug trafficking.
At the end of April, as a result of the accentuated control activity that the investigators were carrying out on the members of the criminal organization, at the end of April it was determined that the two maximum responsible had moved to the island of Tenerife in order to carry out an illegal transaction related to drug trafficking. Allowing the apprehension of 10 kilos of cocaine and the arrest of the heads of the organization.
With the corresponding judicial authorization, two searches were carried out on the island of Gran Canaria, where the leader of the organization and his lieutenant were from, in which the seizure of 16 kilograms of cocaine and the intervention of 8 vehicles were carried out, of which four of them had a hidden compartment where they hid the drug for transport, in addition to other effects and tools that they used to commit the crimes.
The operation culminated, with the arrest, on the island of Gran Canaria, of five people belonging to the criminal organization, three of them in charge of the transport and movement of Money from the illicit activities of the criminal network.
The Police operation ended with a total of 8 detainees, 7 of whom have entered prison, the apprehension of 26 kilograms of cocaine, the intervention of almost 150,000 euros in cash, 8 vehicles (four of them with a cove to hide the drug), a sailboat type boat, an inflatable boat, 5 encrypted telephones, electronic security devices, as well as various tools and documentation related to criminal activities.
One of the most active organizations in cocaine trafficking has been dismantled in the Canary Islands.
Agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard have proceeded to the total dismantling of a criminal organization based in the Canary Islands, composed entirely of citizens of Spanish nationality, being one of the most active in large-scale cocaine trafficking, with connections with the most important international criminal organizations.
The criminal network maintained connections with the Italian mafia of Calabria, the Skaljari clan of Montenegro, as well as the cartels of Brazil and Colombia, with whom they were related in their criminal activity.
The dismantled criminal organization would have established several channels of cocaine introduction into the Canary Islands, and would have an important logistics for the distribution of narcotics in the archipelago, using, among other methods, vehicles with hidden hydraulic compartments -coves-, which had been specifically equipped with an opening system to which access was only possible if a combination of switches was known and executed and executed. devices of the vehicles themselves, which were known only to the members of the organization. They also had sailboat-type vessels prepared to receive cocaine from mother ships on the high seas.
Due to the intense work of surveillance with respect to the different investigated, the agents managed to find out the circuit that the organization used for the movement of Money from illicit activities, using economic mules, people who would transport significant amounts of Money between the Canary Islands, all from the profits of drug trafficking.
At the end of April, as a result of the accentuated control activity that the investigators were carrying out on the members of the criminal organization, at the end of April it was determined that the two maximum responsible had moved to the island of Tenerife in order to carry out an illegal transaction related to drug trafficking. Allowing the apprehension of 10 kilos of cocaine and the arrest of the heads of the organization.
With the corresponding judicial authorization, two searches were carried out on the island of Gran Canaria, where the leader of the organization and his lieutenant were from, in which the seizure of 16 kilograms of cocaine and the intervention of 8 vehicles were carried out, of which four of them had a hidden compartment where they hid the drug for transport, in addition to other effects and tools that they used to commit the crimes.
The operation culminated, with the arrest, on the island of Gran Canaria, of five people belonging to the criminal organization, three of them in charge of the transport and movement of Money from the illicit activities of the criminal network.
The Police operation ended with a total of 8 detainees, 7 of whom have entered prison, the apprehension of 26 kilograms of cocaine, the intervention of almost 150,000 euros in cash, 8 vehicles (four of them with a cove to hide the drug), a sailboat type boat, an inflatable boat, 5 encrypted telephones, electronic security devices, as well as various tools and documentation related to criminal activities.