Eight of the 12 detainees in the “Munari” operation were imprisoned at midnight on the orders of the Cambados judge investigating the “narcolanchas” case. Among the four arrested are Ramón Bugallo Martínez, “Mon” and one of his sons. Bugallo Martínez is the cousin of historical Cambadé drug dealer José Ramón Prado Bugallo, “Sito Miñanco”.
The judge indicts the twelve cases of smuggling and crimes against the state. Public health. A series of injunctions, including a curfew, were taken for the four who were released. Spain.
Operation “Munari” served to stop several imminent drug shipments. The nearly half-dozen speedboats the organization has built between Arousa, Salamanca, Madrid, Barcelona and the north of Portugal, which it dismantled this week, were already ready to sail and participate in a drug-smuggling operation. Agents involved in the operation found them covered with white tarps at different spots—particularly at a shipyard in northern Portugal.
The raid was exploited by US agents on Wednesday. Civil Guard, The National Police and Customs Surveillance Agency, in coordination with the Court of First Instance and Order No. 4 of Cambados, finally resulted in the arrest of 21 persons (12 in Galicia, mostly in O Salnés). Capture of 23 ships at different construction stages. A large number of high-powered engines were also interfered with.
Nine of the 21 people detained in the operation were released at the police station on Thursday, alleging that they were pawns of the organization, while the remaining twelve were brought before the judge of the Criminal Court of First Instance in the early hours of Friday morning. Order number 4 of Cambados.
They testified before magistrate Luz María Fernández de Landa and Pontevedra state anti-drug prosecutor Pablo Varela, with the help of their lawyers and under the watchful eye of Civil Guard agents.
After 11:30 pm on Friday night, the judge ordered that 8 of the 12 detainees enter the temporary prison without being released on bail. The remaining four were released despite having their passports withdrawn and barred from leaving the country’s territory with the obligation to appear in court when summoned. An investigation was opened on charges of smuggling, membership of a criminal organization, and crimes against public health, all of which continue.
Among those under investigation in the “Munari” operation are Ramón Bugallo Martínez “Mon”, the cousin of historical drug trafficker Cambadé “Sito Miñanco”, and Pablo V., 34, from Vilanova, who has no crimes. The record of who was believed to be was also at the top of the organizational hierarchy.
“Munari” is the largest ever operation against the maritime logistics network of drug trafficking. To find a precedent of similar value, it is necessary to go back to “Tabaiba” of 2009, again administered by the Courts of Cambados.
On this occasion, fewer boats were captured, but in return an organization of “narcolancheros” actively participating in the caches was beheaded.
Another relevant aspect of “Munari” is that glider manufacturers have worked for different groups dedicated to drug trafficking; most of them are dedicated to the transportation of cannabis between Morocco and Spain via the Strait of Gibraltar. During the operation, several computers, mobile phones and other documents that could give clues to the eventual buyers of the “narkolankas” were tampered with. Presumably this will help the State Security Forces and Bodies to ameliorate the persecution of clans operating in the south of Spain in the short or medium term.
The disbanded organization is said to be dedicated to building speedboats for so-called drug trafficking organizations. Provided by sea or land. In these cases, as far as possible, the carriages were made by Portugal, as the legislation in that country allows such ships. In Spain, pleasure craft longer than eight meters has been banned since 2018, but not in Portugal, so plot members tried to finish construction of their gliders in the neighboring country.
broke out on wednesday
Operation “Munari” began early Wednesday morning with the first arrests and the earliest records. Different teams acted simultaneously to prevent anyone under investigation from escaping or destroying evidence, with the support of two helicopters and the involvement of a trained dog unit.
In Cambados, agents arrested “Sito Miñanco”‘s cousin and one son, while in Vilanova two cousins associated with a mechanical workshop were arrested. The device was immediately moved to the neighboring towns of Ribadumia and Meaño, as the researchers wanted to break into the ships and hangars where the organization stored the gliders it produced.
Of particular importance was the deployment in Meaño, in a warehouse whose façade still bears the mark of a company associated with the stone industry. Dozens of Civil Guard agents and National Police they were posted there for most of the morning. Another intervention point was Ribadumia, located in an unsigned warehouse in a secluded rural area near the Umia river.
In searches, investigators found boats mounted on cars and assemblies of powerful outboards piled on the wall in various construction situations. A boat was also placed inside the box of a truck, possibly ready for delivery to the organization’s final customers.
The operation was carried out in the four Spanish autonomous communities and in a dozen jurisdictions spread over northern Portugal, where the cooperation of the Eurojust office, which oversees the orders of Cambados, is of paramount importance.
Family support for detainees in Salamanca
The detainees were transferred to Cambados by the Civil Guard in a prisoner bus from Pontevedra Command. The car was parked behind the Courthouse a few minutes past nine in the morning. By then, the judge had declassified the trial, and defense lawyers had the opportunity to look at the documents before seeing their clients. The statements began in the afternoon with the arrival of the prosecutor in charge of the case. As with relatives of detainees in Salamanca, some relatives of detainees went to Cambados. For hours they marched outside the Courts with evident impatience, sheltered from the gusts of wind and heavy rain that fell on Cambados throughout the morning. At one point, as Civil Guard agents prepared to take two of the Salamanca detainees from the bus into the courthouse, their relatives approached to encourage them and remind them to cover their faces before getting off the bus. to hide your identity.