A large police operation in which 450 Mossos participated has ended an organization that sold cocaine in various parts of Catalonia, mainly in Badalona. It took place on Monday July 11 and was a simultaneous device in Badalona, Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, El Vendrell and Calafell. This operation dismantled a criminal organization specializing in the sale of cocaine that acted mainly in the Sant Roc neighborhood of Badalona.
The investigators made 27 entries and searches in homes and professional offices and arrested 46 members of the criminal organization (14 women and 29 men). The detainees are related to crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, crimes against public health in the form of substances that cause a serious health risk and money laundering.
Drug traffic
The Investigation Unit of the Badalona police station initiated this long and thorough investigation at the end of 2020 that allowed to prove the implication of all those investigated in the criminal acts. The agents collected evidence showing that it was an organization hierarchical and structured criminal, with a clear distribution of the functions of the members of the group and that was dedicated to the sale of drugs, mainly cocaine. In fact, this sale was mainly made from a flat on Calle Còrdova in the Sant Roc neighbourhood.
15,000 euros of earnings per day
As a result of the police investigations, the investigators verified that this point of sale was active 24 hours and he got about 15,000 euros per day earnings from drug sales. In this way, the investigators learned that the organization was made up of two independent groups that had allied with the aim of obtaining important benefits from the sale of the drug, a branch rooted in the neighborhood for many years that provided the infrastructure and several watchmen and vendors; and another branch of people who were in charge of providing the drug that was sold in the neighborhood.
The suspects had criminal records. From this analysis it was concluded that the organization had large operations to buy real estate, vehicles, computer equipment, etc. Purchases that could not be justified in any case.
The modus operandi detected consisted of making use of cash, presumably from drug trafficking. they did cash payments or cash deposits on wallet cards to buy what you need. To go unnoticed, they used shell companies or intermediaries to hide who was behind it. In fact, in none of the large purchases they made did they request bank loans to finance them and they paid in cash, assuming expenses greater than 500,000 euros.
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The investigators detected up to four large real estate and car operations with which approximately 757,800 euros were laundered.
Given these facts, on July 11, the Investigation Unit of the Badalona police station, under the tutelage of the Investigating Court number 2 of Badalona, led a simultaneous operation in which more than 450 troops participated.