Eight of the detainees entered prison / It took two days for the specialists of the police GOIT to find the whereabouts of 334 kg of drugs / The shipment arrived in Spain from Costa Rica
Employees of the Customs Supervision Service of the Tax Administration and members of the National Agency The police carried out a joint investigation within the framework of Operation Safari, as a result of which a criminal organization that imported large quantities of cocaine from South America was dismantled. So far, nine people have been arrested and 299 packages of cocaine, weighing 334 kilograms, hidden inside parts of an excavator, have been seized, all of them in the port of Valencia. Just two days ago, Narcodiario reported on another operation aimed at this port: more than half a ton of the same drug confiscated in Panama.
The investigation began in May last year after the disbandment of a criminal group that was dedicated to the theft of camper vans and its subsequent reappearance on the market by falsifying its identification data. After the arrest of the suspects, a series of notes were discovered that allowed the agents to take measures that led them to track the shipment from Colombia that had aroused their suspicions.
Through international cooperation, a cocaine shipment was discovered in Colombia and a total of 13 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside a transmission of industrial equipment destined for Spain were seized.
In December it became known that two containers from Costa Rica had arrived at the port of Valencia and that they were directly related to the organization under investigation, and that thanks to the efforts of the Valencia Customs they were identified.
The containers were transporting pieces of industrial equipment bound for Onda (Castellón), inside which the operatives, thanks to the work of the Technical Intervention Group (GOIT) of the National Police, who worked continuously for two days, managed to discover a total of 334 kg of explosives hidden inside various pieces. cocaine.
Since then, a total of six searches and raids have been carried out in the Valencian towns of El Puig de Santa María and Benetusser, as well as in the Alicante municipalities of La Nucía and Benidorm, resulting in a total of nine people arrested for crimes related to drug trafficking and membership of a criminal organization.
The searches and searches resulted in the seizure of three kilograms of methamphetamine, 25,000 euros in cash, nine vehicles and forged documents that the investigators used to carry out their operations.
In this sense, one of the accused used forged Portuguese documents, with the help of which he practically started a new life in 2019, imprisoned by decision of the National High Court for drug trafficking.
After the police investigations, the detainees were handed over to the courts of Benidorm and eight of the detainees were remanded in custody. The investigation is ongoing and further arrests cannot be ruled out.
Employees of the Customs Supervision Service of the Tax Administration and members of the National Agency The police carried out a joint investigation within the framework of Operation Safari, as a result of which a criminal organization that imported large quantities of cocaine from South America was dismantled. So far, nine people have been arrested and 299 packages of cocaine, weighing 334 kilograms, hidden inside parts of an excavator, have been seized, all of them in the port of Valencia. Just two days ago, Narcodiario reported on another operation aimed at this port: more than half a ton of the same drug confiscated in Panama.
The investigation began in May last year after the disbandment of a criminal group that was dedicated to the theft of camper vans and its subsequent reappearance on the market by falsifying its identification data. After the arrest of the suspects, a series of notes were discovered that allowed the agents to take measures that led them to track the shipment from Colombia that had aroused their suspicions.
Through international cooperation, a cocaine shipment was discovered in Colombia and a total of 13 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside a transmission of industrial equipment destined for Spain were seized.
In December it became known that two containers from Costa Rica had arrived at the port of Valencia and that they were directly related to the organization under investigation, and that thanks to the efforts of the Valencia Customs they were identified.
The containers were transporting pieces of industrial equipment bound for Onda (Castellón), inside which the operatives, thanks to the work of the Technical Intervention Group (GOIT) of the National Police, who worked continuously for two days, managed to discover a total of 334 kg of explosives hidden inside various pieces. cocaine.
Since then, a total of six searches and raids have been carried out in the Valencian towns of El Puig de Santa María and Benetusser, as well as in the Alicante municipalities of La Nucía and Benidorm, resulting in a total of nine people arrested for crimes related to drug trafficking and membership of a criminal organization.
The searches and searches resulted in the seizure of three kilograms of methamphetamine, 25,000 euros in cash, nine vehicles and forged documents that the investigators used to carry out their operations.
In this sense, one of the accused used forged Portuguese documents, with the help of which he practically started a new life in 2019, imprisoned by decision of the National High Court for drug trafficking.
After the police investigations, the detainees were handed over to the courts of Benidorm and eight of the detainees were remanded in custody. The investigation is ongoing and further arrests cannot be ruled out.