Dismantled a criminal organization that introduced cocaine to Spain through the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport
More than 58 kilograms of high purity cocaine have been intervened and 8 people have been arrested
The drug arrived in Spain through the Adolfo Suarez Madrid Barajas airport with post office or “mules”, and then transported it by road in cars with double bottom “caletas” to different Spanish and European cities
The Civil Guard, in collaboration with the Municipal Police of Madrid and the Cantonal Police of Switzerland, have broken up an organization dedicated to drug trafficking and detained its eight members, within the framework of the "Takeoff Madrid" operation.
The investigation began last January, when it was detected at the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport, a young Spaniard traveling from Montevideo (Uruguay) with two suitcases containing more than 47 kilograms of high purity cocaine.
On the suspicion that behind this young man an organized criminal network was held and dedicated to the introduction of cocaine into our country from different parts of South America, an investigation was initiated to identify the other organizational members who were engaged in the reception of cocaine
The development of the investigation, in which Madrid Municipal Police agents actively participated, allowed to know that the organization was made up of people of Dominican and Spanish origin and that they were based in Madrid, Valladolid and Palma de Mallorca.
Likewise, it was found that once the drug arrived at the Madrid airport, it was transferred and distributed to different parts of the national territory and to other European countries using vehicles with double bottoms (coves), for the concealment of prohibited substances.
The roles within the criminal framework were distributed among those responsible for the collection and sending of drug couriers to producing countries, those who supervised the arrival of cocaine to Madrid, members in charge of custody and sale, and people who moved the drug through Road to different Spanish and European cities.
In the course of the investigation, French and Swiss police officers coordinated by the Civil Guard intercepted two high-end vehicles of the organization when transporting drugs. On the French border one of them was intercepted with eight kilograms of cocaine in a double bottom and in the Swiss city of Zurich two other kilograms of high purity cocaine were found in a hidden compartment.
The eight members who formed the organization in Madrid, Palma de Mallorca and Valladolid were arrested, as well as the registration of their homes and a commercial premises that they ran in Valladolid. 3,000 euros were intervened in fractional currency, and different elements for the distribution and sale of the drug.
The detainees are 7 men and 1 woman, of Dominican and Spanish origin, aged between 20 and 50, with diverse backgrounds for fraud and crimes against public health for drug trafficking. For these facts they are charged with a new crime against public health for drug trafficking and another belonging to a criminal organization. After being made available to the competent Judicial Authority, it decreed the entry into prison of the principal investigators.
