District Court Second Division Almeria condemned imprisonment of up to eight years and five months for a group drug traffickers who joined 4,650 kilos of marijuana stash and that they were discovered thanks to the infiltration of three secret agents.
The sentence indicates that the Civil Guard’s Central Operations Unit (UCO) received word in September 2020 from a group of people seeking collaborators to provide them with logistical support to smuggle “large quantities” of narcotics through the “south coast”. Spain”.
One of the members of this group was JGBB, whom a UCO agent had managed to contact and came to meet him at the pub. Valenciathe defendant can verify the accuracy of this information after suggesting different ways to promote it drugs from Morocco through boats.
In this sense, JGBB explained that they needed a boat to take the drugs on the high seas and take them to the Spanish coast, and that the secret agent was interested in “hiding his identity”.
After reporting this to the AlmerÃa Drug Enforcement Office, allowed the performance of three secret agentswho contacted other defendants through JGBB
This group had the “boss” MLM; JGB and DTQ performing organizational functions; JGBB and SAL and PV, who act as “delegates or commissioners” of the “boss” and are responsible for contacting and finding the aforementioned collaborators who are aware of his plans to introduce “large quantities of cannabis” into Spain.
The judges also place the accused REK among “delegates or commissioners,” but they consider it not proven that he was aware of this plan.
Secret agents received up to three payments of 15,000, 8,000 and 15,000 euros for the alleged work. that they were in theory favoring the conspiracy, and that they bought a satellite phone and the contact details of the people who would take the drugs to a meeting point on the high seas.
Finally, on April 23, 2021, the fishing boat used by the agencies came into contact with two speedboats that unloaded the total load. 155 bales of marijuana weighing 30 kilos each.
MLM thought DTQ and JGB were stealing the drugs, and after hearing nothing from them, they moved with PV to their home in Marbella (Málaga), which DTQ received on April 24. beaten “because it shows no signs of life and doesn’t report where the property is”.
A day later, on the orders of the MLM, the defendants SAL, REK and the “boss”‘s youngest son went to the parking lot of a hamburger restaurant in Conil de la Frontera (Cádiz) and They collected 20 of the 155 bales from the hands of secret agents in a vanand paid for the work done by the guards with a bag of 192 thousand euros.
Thereupon, secret agents immediately arrested these three members. group and same day searches were conducted in Marbella, Estepona (Málaga)before the capture of the different parties involved in the organization.
Defendants face prison terms ranging from eight years and five months MLM to four years and one month PV (respectively greater and lesser penalty) for crimes against public health and membership of a criminal group, as well as between 36,000,000 and 18,000 euros. payment of fines.
Source: Informacion
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