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The court has sentenced the criminal group, which was led by two Albanian brothers
A modest 20 square meter office in the Common Uses building of the Boecillo Technology Park in Spain has turned out to be the center of a cocaine trafficking network, where 712 kilograms, worth 38 million euros, were found.
The drugs were camouflaged in bags of palm flour, leaving Colombia with final destinations for many major cities in Spain and Europe.
The court has sentenced the criminal group, which was led by two Albanian brothers, who were imprisoned in 2020, after an investigation of about 2 years.
The investigators created a special structure, made up of more than a hundred policemen distributed in the different Spanish provinces and arrested 11 people in Valencia (4), Madrid (3), Valladolid, Vigo, Valencia and Toledo, including the main persons responsible for the organization and responsible for logistics and infrastructure.
Of the eleven arrested, one man and one woman have been declared innocent. The rest of the convicts are for various crimes within the criminal group.
As the head of the group, two Albanian brothers, who were in contact with the Colombian suppliers and supervised all the logistics in Spain. One task was to receive the goods and it was in charge of a carrier from Pontevedra Manuel GC. At the top level there was also a businessman from Boecillo who contracted cargoes of 'flour'.
Likewise, one of the members rented apartments in Madrid and Valencia (the location of the laboratory for the conversion of flour into cocaine) and a grandson of the Albanians, was an assistant for various "managements".
The Albanian leaders were sentenced to ten years in prison and fined 20 million each. One of them has added another six months for possession of weapons without a permit after the police seized a 'Mondial' brand revolver in his house in Paracuellos del Jarama (Madrid).
The Galician carrier Manuel GC has been sentenced to 11 years in prison and a 40 million fine; responsible for rents with 8 years in prison and 20 million and the grandson of the Albanian brain with 7 years in prison and 20 million fine.
The operation against this network was the result of the long and secret work of the Central Narcotics Brigade that had to decipher the coded languages of the investigated.
It all started from the suspicions of the Colombian Police, in 2018, that "serious" drug traffickers could prepare a shipment of cocaine to Spain in containers.
As a result of the police investigations, the agents learned about the presence in Spain of a couple of Colombian citizens, who had been sent up to three times by the supplier organization. Their mission was to control the structure of the business in Spain, as well as to negotiate the percentages and profits that would be distributed after the drugs were extracted and distributed.
The task was to find and then track down the members of the conspiracy in Spain. Police waited for the shipment to arrive in December 2018 to dismantle the network. They seized 12 containers of material to produce 3,000 kilograms, as the CNP noted at the time in a note accompanying a video of the operation.
Business structure
The organization had “a large business structure that was responsible for importing containers of drugs in order to easily bypass customs controls.
The drug traffickers knew that the security measures at the customs in the Pontevedra estuary were not the best and took advantage of the high traffic by sneaking in drug shipments.
Once the goods arrived in Spain, they had chemists or specialists brought in from Latin America to instruct the organization and show them how to prepare the narcotic.
Chemists and 'notaries'
The police are aware of the presence in Spain of these experts for obtaining the base of cocaine, but they have not been identified and therefore have not been prosecuted.
They also had Colombian supervisors to guarantee the success of the operation with cocaine supplied with a high economic value.
In order to pay for and receive benefits from the investment made, the organization was preparing various rooms on the property to be used for growing marijuana. For this, they relied on the Moroccan subject, who, in addition, was responsible for the security of the farm, staying inside it 24 hours a day, not even letting him order food, as it was given to him by another member of the organization.
The house was rented due to its remote location from the big cities, difficult access, discretion and the possibility of using the rented property for these illegal activities without attracting the attention of the rest of the neighboring properties.
Furthermore, the members of the organization took a number of security measures before leaving for the property, including conducting constant surveillance of the house to detect possible surveillance by the police, a fact that made the investigation extremely difficult.
The police noted the "great mobility of the organization", as its main leaders traveled all over Spain and lived in a luxury house on the Costa del Sol from where they coordinated and gave the right instructions. In the ten house searches, the agents also seized six vehicles (four cars, a van and a motorcycle) and a gun with 47 cartridges.
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