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The National Police have seized in Tarragona 420 kilos of cocaine and arrested eight people who had automatic weapons and bulletproof vests
Those arrested are worth a screen company to introduce in Spain, through the port of Barcelona, ​​cocaine from South America
Among those detained pending accumulate imprisonment in France amounting to 75 years for serious offenses
Agents of the National Police, in collaboration with the French police have broken up an organized group linked to the Marseille mafia, and settled on the Costa Brava.
420 kilos of cocaine were seized during the operation in Tarragona, and eight people had automatic weapons and bulletproof vests have been arrested.
The organization used a front company to introduce into Spain via the port of Barcelona, ​​cocaine from South America.
Among those detained pending accumulate imprisonment in France amounting to 75 years for serious offenses.
The investigation began in November last year, after learning of the settlement on the Costa Brava organized from France and criminal groups with international connections.
Members of this group have initiated a series of contacts with persons resident in the area, owners of a company engaged in foreign trade legally.
Given the relations of this criminal group with organized crime in Marseille, Lyon and Nice (France), the researchers contacted the Central Office for the Suppression of the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs (OCRTIS) in France, to participate in research.
The agents discovered that this organized group had planned to send two sea containers with a legal cargo from the Port of Callao (Peru) to reach the Port of Barcelona.
Hidden between the legal burden, try to introduce into Spain a significant amount of narcotic substance.
Through a police presence, it was found that the loading of the containers had been performed without incident in the port of origin (Peru).
Once the load apparently canned fish, reached the port of Barcelona, ​​researchers under surveillance and control to the members of the organization who brought up the possibility of sending drugs to a warehouse located in Tarragona.
The officers found that all members of the criminal group were gathered inside the ship, armed with automatic weapons of war as a Kalashnikov submachine gun and five pistols, so several teams proceeded to GEO entry the premises.
Eight people (five French citizens and three Spanish) have been arrested in the warehouse, where agents have also seized 420 kilos of cocaine hidden among 21 tons of cans of fish, as well as five guns of different calibers, one AK47 assault rifle a Skorpion submachine gun and three bulletproof vests.
Investigators also have been three homes in Spain and three in France, and have seized five luxury cars, 500 rounds of ammunition of different calibers, an inhibitor of cellular signal and GPS, two complete sets of metal plates for making counterfeit with 40 license plates and white plates 5,000 euros in cash.
75 years in prison pending
The five French nationals arrested, aged between 34 and 57 years, accumulating a total of 75 years in prison pending compliance on French territory for crimes such as drug trafficking, conspiracy, money laundering, theft and unlawful possession weapons and explosives.
Research has been carried out by agents of the Narcotics Group of the police station in Cartagena, with the collaboration of the General Commissariat of the Judicial Police and the Central Office for the Suppression of the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs (OCRTIS) of France.
Source: Jefatura Superior de Policía Murcia
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