May 4, 2013
Police dismantled the largest organization of cultivation and distribution of marijuana between Spain and Holland
Agents of the National Police, in collaboration with the Inland Revenue, have dismantled a criminal organization specializing in the cultivation, production and distribution of marijuana between Spain and Holland.
In total there are 21 detainees, mostly Dutch national, a special device in which more than a hundred agents and has allowed 15 plantations in locating homes and farms located throughout the province of Malaga.
In addition, specialists from the Office of Asset Location of Central UDEF have conducted research network assets to emerge goods that could be the result of his illicit activities. Thanks to this analysis, the National Police requested the judicial intervention and seizure of 14 high-end cars, four motorcycles and 23 -18 of them properties in the Netherlands, valued at 4,400,000 euros, as has been pointed out from the National Police said in a statement.
Hierarchy in the organization
It is the first time you execute a European Arrest Order property, which has been requested at the request of the Spanish National Police through the Magistrate's Court No.1 Malaga and coordinated with the Dutch prosecutor.
The organization was perfectly hierarchical and qualified personnel available to carry out the fraud of the electric and installation of greenhouses. They had settled in Holland partners through which shipments were made to Spain,-at-large tonnage trailers of all the equipment required for the installation of greenhouses and expertise in collecting traveling narcotic substance specifically from the Netherlands to Spain for the clean.
The organization had many homes and rural estates where hydroponic marijuana plantations settled distributed by the Malaga province, specifically in the towns of Benalmadena, Fuengirola, Mijas, Coin, Alhaurin de la Torre and Velez-Malaga. Besides transporting hashish from Spain to Holland also dedicated to import from that country MDMA-Ecstasy-for distribution by the Costa del Sol
Over a hundred agents in the device
More than a hundred agents of the National Police and the Tax Agency, have developed this device which has culminated in the arrest of 21 people for crimes against public health, criminal organization, fraud of electricity and counterfeiting. An operation that has allowed dismantle 15 plantations across the province more than 13,000 marijuana plants.
The officers have made 22 records have allowed too involved 15 kilograms of Afghan hashish pollen, one kilograms of ecstasy ready for distribution, 20 vehicles, many of them high-end, more than 24,000 euros in cash, £ 200 British , 2,300 euros in counterfeit bills, 11 watches of high economic value, large supplies, almost a hundred mobile phones, a revolver, three precision scales, a marker and an inhibitor of frequency, in addition to abundant material for growing marijuana .
Sophisticated facilities
The facilities that housed the plantations were of high quality and with a degree of sophistication that allowed rapid production of the drug that was sent and distributed in the Netherlands. It is considered the largest marijuana seizure by security forces to date in Spain, highlighting the peculiarity that the criminal organization headed narcotic production and incessant massively large economic returns reporting to him.
He has acted on all levels of the criminal organization, from the leaders and directors of criminal activity, to the keepers plantations, through the charge in greenhouses and facilities responsible for logistical support tasks.
The police investigation has also focused on intervention and blockade of all goods that the organization may have acquired through criminal activity.
Seizure of 23 properties
The Group Asset Location of Central UDEF, the Commissioner General of the Judicial Police, has collaborated with specialists from the National Police Station in Malaga to request the judicial authority and intervention freezing of 23 properties, five of them in Spain and 18 in the Netherlands.
It is the first time you run a European Arrest Order, a legal instrument that allows flexibility and immediacy of these judgments, and as has happened with European Orders Arrest Warrant-EAW-leads to more effective in the fight against organized crime.
The equity research has been able to engage 14 high-end cars and six motorcycles, valued at 1,100,000 euros, in addition to the 23 properties whose value is estimated at more than 4,400,000 euros.
The operation was carried out by agents of the UDYCO of the Costa del Sol Heritage Research Group and Location of Assets BPPJ of Malaga, with the support of other units Málaga Provincial Police Station, the Police Central UDEF General of the Judicial Police and the Tax Office.