News within the operation towards drug trafficking that started early Tuesday morning with as much as 14 detainees within the provinces of Pontevedra, Ourense and A Coruña.
In the 14 searches lastly carried out, the variety of these arrested has risen to 16, after the Civil Guard intercepted a fishing boat with 3,300 kilograms of cocaine inside within the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Their vacation spot was some undetermined level on the Galician coast. According to the Armed Institute, these liable for the consignment discovered belong to a gaggle based mostly in Galicia.
It is specialised within the introduction of huge quantities of medication into nationwide territory, utilizing boats that simulated fishing campaigns, working within the neighborhood of the African coast.
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Some members even went personally to Senegal to coordinate the drug cargo: they had been in command of chartering the vessel, hiring the crew members, and discovering out what different ships can be ready upon their arrival in Spain.
Once the roles of every one had been recognized, the brokers noticed that they intensified their actions for the entry of a big load of cocaine. Hence, they boarded the chartered ship on December 18, particularly north of the Canary Islands.
Hydraulic double bottoms and encrypted messaging
The Air Service of the Civil Guard discreetly managed to watch its journey after finding it at sea. During the boarding, three crew members had been detained and the fishing boat was taken to the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The investigation really started earlier this yr. It was found that the group had “subtle” means for transporting medication via a number of Spanish provinces, utilizing double hydraulic bottoms in automobiles. That manner they did not have to make use of different acquaintances as a shuttle.
In addition, they used encrypted messaging for communication between all of the members of the community. After the interception of the ship, the operation was deployed on land, with entries into buildings within the judicial districts of Vigo, Vilagarcía, Cambados, Ourense and Ponteareas.
The brokers seized a kilogram of heroin, 1.5 kilograms of cocaine, 20,000 euros, high-end automobiles, encrypted digital units and complex detection units of technical means, in addition to ample documentation and different results.
Most used route in your success
The operation, known as ‘Sugar Brown’, has been directed by the Investigating Court No. 1 of Vigo and by the Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office of Pontevedra, and carried out by the Organized Crime Team, based mostly in Galicia (ECO Galicia) of UCO along with the Organized Crime and Anti-drug Team of the UOPJ of Pontevedra, with the participation of various Units from the identical Command.
This worldwide drug trafficking route is consolidated as one of many itineraries most utilized by massive drug trafficking organizations, who take into account it one of the vital “protected” and with one of the best assure of success for his or her pursuits.
And it’s that, the Civil Guard has been detecting for a while that sure Galician organizations have step by step elevated their infrastructures to introduce narcotics via this route: from Africa to Galicia, bordering the Iberian Peninsula via Atlantic waters.