How was the sloop he had to take in Tarifa a few hours after leaving Sotogrande due to sailing problems? It was November 29 and Arhoa’s captain and mechanic Ezequiel from Argentina and Julio César, they managed to fix it for the rest of that day and the next day. On 1 December, shortly after sailing for the Canary Islands as a previous step to reach their home country, The sailboat was boarded in the middle of the Bosphorus by the Customs Surveillance patrol boat Fénix V and returned to the port of La Rada. National Police recording will begin.
This check it was long. It started during the day and ended at night. strong chemical odors This was proving last-minute patches and comments that it was foolish to cross the Atlantic with a ship in such a state. During the study, 47-year-old Ezequiel conformed to the stereotype that Argentines speak out of their elbows. The boy didn’t shut his mouth, as if he’d known all his life who had turned his boat upside down. He even tried to empathize between jokes and jokes. He recognized the agents for their work on the grounds that he worked as a lawyer for the Argentine Naval Administration, his country’s maritime authority.
But the chatterbox fell silent when the cops arrived from the scene. Technical Interventions Operational Group (GOIT) they put all their senses in a piece of furniture kitchen. This silence sounded like an air raid siren for the agents who had finally found the loot. Secret compartment specially created with aluminum plates, It housed 28 diesel-coated packets to keep the smell of the 56 kilos of MDMA they contained. A historical cache due to the amount of the drug, the method of transport, and the destination. The National Police had blocked the first known shipment. ecstasy A route between Europe and South America by sea, already known to be open by drug traffickers to transport cannabis to the new continent, but without designer drugs. Until now, mules playing on intercontinental commercial flights were to be interfered with in much smaller amounts.
In the logic of narcotics, the operation of Ezequiel, Julio César and their three compatriots, who are imprisoned in Marbella, makes sense all over the world. MDMA, which can be paid for up to 48,000 euros per kilo in the Spanish wholesale market, is rising in price in South America as it is a much less common drug. The police sources consulted calculated that a large number of intervened amounts were calculated. Could have produced 800,000 to 1,200,000 tablets in Argentina. Paying an average of $30-40 per unit could make up to $48m (€45m) on the black market. The National Police speculate that such an amount of ecstasy, possibly cooked in the Netherlands, could be a remnant of summer from the Levante and Ibiza region that ended up on the Costa del Sol for their Christmas dates. A great opportunity that Argentines do not want to miss.
past in argentina
When drugs are found, agents Greco Costa del Sol, Central Narcotics Brigade (Udyco) and Customs Surveillance They had already finished their homework. They knew that the talkative captain had a history in his country due to an incident with the same sailboat that was then called Thorben. In 2013, Argentine police found 43 kilos of cocaine in him when he was detained in a private club in Buenos Aires. Y In 2020, he narrowly escaped a major operation involving 1,500 kilos of cocaine in an apartment in San Pedro Alcántara. The largest shipment of this drug brought by sea on the Costa del Sol. The party arrived on the same sailboat from Argentina to the shores of Malaga, and he was one of four, but he did not witness the moment when some of them swelled. The boats collected the drugs in the open seas and carried them into the port. bajadilla He cannot be involved in the case.
Ezequiel left Spain in a hurry, just in case. The 15-metre-long schooner Thorben was left abandoned in the marina of Marbella. Until last October, when the Argentine returned to the Costa del Sol via Brazil to face his new challenge. He and his friends rescued the boat, which had deteriorated badly due to inactivity and the passage of time, and first transported it to Puerto Banús. Then they painted it white in Sotogrande, which they had healed inside and out, and They changed the name to Arhoa for a new adventure of up to 10,000 kilometers in a straight line.