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Dominican republic participates in the seizure of four tons of cocaine in Spain

The security forces of Spanish, in collaboration with the DEA in america and the police forces of several Latin american countries, found four tonnes of cocaine in various interventions carried out in the port city of Valencia (east of Spain).

The drug was hidden in six containers that were transporting goods very diverse as sheets, bags of sugar, nuts, California, pulp of pineapple and even the frame of an autogyro, detailed this Friday the researchers in a press conference.

The police action in Spain was part of an operation called Crankbrook Marchica which resulted in eleven detainees, most spaniards (except two Dutch and a costamarfileño).

Was also coordinated together with law-enforcement bodies of Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and Colombia, as well as the Netherlands, host country of the drug.

Staff of the Port of Valencia, with access to certain facilities, made use of their privileges or provided to third parties to access and retrieve different batches of the drug, according to research.

“They are not employees of the port but also for people who have a link, such as truckers, who put a trailer in the port facilities,” said Santos Bernal, head of the Drugs Unit and Organized Crime (UDYCO) of the National Police of spain.

In just “three or four weeks” were seized 3,800 pounds of cocaine in six containers coming from different south american countries, he said.

The first investigations were initiated last April, in full state of alarm by the pandemic, when the Latin american organizations took the opportunity to “increase your activity of cocaine to Europe,” to think that law enforcement structures would be “with the guard lower”, explained the lieutenant-colonel of the specialized unit on trafficking of the Guardia Civil, Jesús García

The goods are transported in “hooks blind”, or were the goods were legal at some point in transit of the Panama or Colombia, as in the shipment of packages of sheets, in the inside of bags of sugar, cans of pulp, pineapple, nuts from California, and even between the frame of an autogyro.

In the third and fourth container were arrested nine people and it involved 5 vehicles, one trailer truck and different material of telecommunications encryption and frequency inhibitors to circumvent possible police investigations.

The last container involved came from Costa Rica, with 1,862 kilograms of cocaine hidden in backpacks ready for extraction with a cargo of pulp of pineapple “without disguise between the load”.

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