The Spanish National Policethe French National Police and the Chilean Investigative Police have arrested 13 people by dismantling a criminal organization that was allegedly dedicated to introducing cocaine in Europa hidden in agricultural machinery throughout the Port of Barcelona.
According to a statement released this Wednesday, the gang based in Valparaíso (Chile) imported large quantities of cocaine hydrochloride from Bolivia, prepared the drug and, through a business network and a “new export route”, sent it to European territory. from Barcelona, passing through Perpignan (France).
In February, the Chilean police detected that the alleged traffickers had contaminated two soil compactors that were going to be sent to Barcelona on a ship and then arrive in France, so a joint international operation was established in a French town near the destination.
In this first phase, four people were arrested, who were placed in provisional prison, and 70 kilos of cocaine were seized, and in a second phase carried out weeks later in Chile, nine people were arrested, so the export branch of cocaine was considered dismantled. the band.
In addition, investigators found out that the organization had among its plans to build more agricultural machinery to continue shipping the narcotic with the same method.
Source: EUROPA PRESS
