National Police investigation It ended with the operation that arrested four people last Friday night at a house in La Braña in Tuilla.at a meeting about “planetary awareness” It started weeks ago after receiving information via an email activated to denounce the existence of the sects. The main members of the group cite police sources, “They performed spiritual and healing rituals that were messily guided by the superior capacities of their spiritual leaders”.
Police say these ceremonies “are illegally supplied for profit, with prohibited substances such as ayahuasca and yopo, whose consumption poses a high risk to physical and mental health.” It also shows that the group “takes neo-shamanism as the basis of their beliefs, mixes mystical ancestral traditions, aligns with stimulating practices, and regards yopo as an “ancestral medicine.”
Police argue that the Swedish leader of the group “used them”. psychoactive substances to facilitate both the recruitment and control of those attending the ceremonies. In rituals, these substances were applied for a fee, also as a way to finance the activities of the spiritual leader and his family.” The police also “reflect that these psychoactive substances are used in some cases. “As a replacement therapy for conventional medicine that facilitates mental manipulation and makes consumers more vulnerable to their ailments”.
According to the agents, the shaman was traveling across the country. “celebratory rites with psychoactive substances and in the presence of minors”. During the search carried out in the operation carried out in Langreo, the Police intervened in cash and foreign currency bills of 5 thousand Euros and “different substances presumed to be psychoactive such as caapi (ayahuasca), yopo, coca leaf and snuff”. Kitchen utensils for preparing and consuming yopo were seizedPolice arrested four people for alleged membership in a criminal organization and involvement in crimes against public health.
The detainees were released by the Langreo 3rd Court of First Instance after giving their statements. With the three of them free of charge, the spiritual guide, who answers to the initials AR, is under investigation for an alleged crime linked to drug trafficking. In principle, a lawsuit has been filed for a crime against public health, “although the qualification in question can be changed throughout teaching”specified jurisdictions.
Those concerned deny any form of crime and that they are a sect. The attendees of the meeting claim that what the AR uses is “these are herbs from the Amazon, tobacco, and some type of resin mixed from herbs to heal wounds.” The operation, called Bunachi, was directed against a “neoshamanic group that held ceremonies with psychoactive substances,” according to police. After researching it says: “before the imminent risk of supplying prohibited substances that are extremely dangerous to health and in the presence of minors”The arrests were made by the officers. It was carried out by police officers from the General Information Police Station in collaboration with the Oviedo City Information Brigade and under the direction of the Langreo District Court.