Spain eviscerates international network of heroin trafficking – Prensa Latina

02 February, 2017 06:20Madrid, 2 feb (PL) With the arrest of 29 people, the Civil Guard Spanish reversed an international organization dedicated to the trafficking of heroin from the Balkans, Turkey and the Netherlands, reported today the armed institute.

The arrests were carried out in the cities of Madrid, Orense, and Pontevedra, spain -these last two in the northern region of Galicia-as part of an operation that had a total of 18 records and confiscated 16 kg of the mentioned drug.

In the town of Pontevedra, the Civil Guard dismantled a laboratory where the criminal network, consisting mostly of criminals of Turkish origin, Albanian, and Spanish, adulteraba and envasaba the drug.

in Addition, he participated 35 thousand euros in cash, a pistol with ammunition, electronic communications, and 11 high-end vehicles, some of them fitted with double bottoms for the transportation of illicit merchandise, said the institution in a statement.

Among the detainees figure a drug trafficker Turkish fugitive from Spanish justice, which weighs a sentence of 14 years in prison, and a surgeon of madrid, who hid in his villa some of the heroin introduced in this country.

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