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Guardia Civil has taken down a criminal gang trafficking cocaine from South America to the port of Algeciras. More than 16.5 million euros have been seized, which is up to now the largest amount of cash seized from a criminal organization in Spain during the last 10 years.
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Criminals have reasons to be worried since law enforcement agencies have obtained a huge amount of information that has been exchanged between criminals at different encrypted communications services. This has lead to lots of arrests and seizure of drugs, money, etc. Countless of spin-off operations are expected to take place meanwhile the Police is working through the vast amount of information.
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The PVPC tariff (“Precio Voluntario para el Pequeño Consumidor”) changed drastically on 1 June 2021, making electricity slightly cheaper during the nights, but making it much more expensive during peak hours during day-time.
The peak hours on the Spanish mainland are roughly between 8.30 am - 2.00 pm and 5.00 pm - 10.00 pm on 1 June 2021. The price has increased with approx. 60% during these hours in comparison with the previous day, making it much more expensive to run air-conditions and other electrical appliances.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Spanish government has added the UK and Japan to the list of those countries where there is no need to present a negative COVID-19 test to enter Spain. This change takes affect from midnight on 24 May.
Further changes are expected to take place in June and July that will make it easier for more people to travel to Spain.
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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.
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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.
- Successful hit against prominent drug traffickers
- Tugboat carrying huge amount of hashish has been seized
- A very active clandestine anabolic and hormone laboratory has been dismantled
- Democracy v.s. Authoritarianism
- Successful hit against criminals trafficking drugs in hidden compartments
- A criminal organization dedicated to trafficking large quantity of hashish from Morocco has been dismantled
- Assassination attempt between drug-trafficking gangs
- A criminal network trafficking people through the Straight of Gibraltar has been dismantled
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