The Spanish Police, the French Anti-Narcotics Office (OFAST) and the Dutch Police, coordinated by Europol, dismantled one of the most active of Europe, in which five people were arrested in Spain, including two members of the Mocro Maffia, one of them considered by the Swedish authorities to be the most prominent criminal in his country.
The investigators focused their investigations on an important Colombian drug trafficker who has been introducing drugs in Spain for more than a decade and who has a wide network of contacts, the Spanish Police reported this Saturday.
Thanks to his experience in the world of drug trafficking, he had managed to build a structure in Spain to introduce into Europe, through this country, “the huge quantities of cocaine” that his clients were demanding.
The organization had established a criminal structure that extended to Spain, France and Colombia.
The investigators discovered that the network was organizing a transfer of cocaine in waters near Venezuela, to later transfer it to Europe.
The shipment, of more than three tons of drugs, was transferred on a sailboat bound for Spain. Specifically to the coast of Huelva, in the southwest of the peninsula. There, two prominent drug traffickers would be in charge of coordinating the tasks of unloading, storing and later transporting the drug.
Once the drug was on land, the first phase of the police intervention took place last year, in which part of the shipment was seized, locating 1,623 kilos of cocaine hidden in a garage located in the heart of the city of Huelva and, in this first phase, two of those investigated, in charge of the custody of the drug, were arrested.
The agents discovered among the cocaine distributors a subject considered by the Swedish authorities to be the most active criminal in his country in recent years.
After months of work, the second phase of the operation was launched on June 30, in which the agents arrested the alleged perpetrators of the criminal organization that operated in Spain, one of them located on the island of Ibiza ( Mediterráneo), where he was on vacation, and another in the prison where he is serving a sentence for other acts.
