Guardia Civil has detained 14 members of a well-known and dangerous criminal gang. The dismantled criminal organization was based mainly in the La Palmilla neighbourhood of Málaga, and its main distribution channels were centred in Marbella, through a Spanish businessman linked for years to drug trafficking, who has distributed drugs throughout almost all the Andalusian provinces and Madrid.
Policía Nacional y Vigilancia Aduanera de la Agencia Tributaria, in collaboration with the National Crime Agency (NCA) in UK, have dismantled a criminal organization led by a historic British drug trafficker and have intervened more than one and a half ton of hashish.
A total of ten people have been detained in the autonomous city of Ceuta and in the provinces of Cádiz and Málaga.
The 34-year-old man has been using a multitude of false profiles on Internet in which he pretended to be younger and, in this way, gain the trust of his victims. The minor reported the sexual assault through the AlertCops application.
Policía Nacional has participated in dismantling a criminal organization allegedly dedicated to the trafficking of medicinal substances that they masked as nutritional products in a joint operation with the Carabinieri of Italy and the Romanian Police that has been coordinated by EUROPOL.
Europol has today published six images – a t-shirt, a wristband, a bag – that they want as many people to look at as possible. The investigators have exhausted all the investigative leads and is turning to the public for further information.
Guardia Civil has detained 8 people whom are members of one of the most important and active criminal organizations dedicated to trafficking large quantity of hashish from Morocco to Spain. Among those arrested is a Spanish citizen of Moroccan origin (MLM) considered one of the most prominent drug traffickers operating between Morocco and the Andalusian coasts and another Italian (PV) who is wanted by the Italian authorities for his membership in the Camorra Napolitana, with several pending legal cases in Italy mainly for drug trafficking and "mafia-type association".
More than seven tons of hashish, carried by a tugboat, has been seized in a new hit against the international drug trafficking in Campo de Gibraltar. It was carried out in a joint operation between Polcía Nacional, Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency (Agencia Tributaria). Three people were detained.
The dismantled organization was "multi-crime" by combining drug trafficking with the manufacture, storage and distribution of illegal medicines through cells distributed throughout Spain, in addition to preparing "potions" or "combos" mixing illegal drugs for direct injection.
The operation has been carried out in permanent contact with the AEPSAD (Agencia Española de Protección de la Salud en el Deporte) who has provided vital information and advice for the successful completion of the investigation.
Guardia Civil has completely dismantled a criminal organization dedicated mainly to trafficking cocaine in secret compartments in vehicles. In total, 20 people have been detained and 17 home searches have been carried out in the towns of Málaga, Córdoba, Torremolinos and Estepona. 21 kilograms of cocaine, 30 kilograms of hashish and 1,029,000 euros in cash have been intervened in the operation, among other effects.
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