The police disguised themselves as Amazon delivery men and used cars belonging to other drug traffickers to go unnoticed in the Madrid urbanization where the drug lord lived, a neighbor of many celebrities and soccer players.
The thread of the police operation that dismantled the largest cocaine laboratory installed in Europe unite the cartels of Mexico and those of Colombia with two narcos from the Canary Islandsa basque country scrap metala hidden house in the village of Cotobade (Pontevedra) and a luxury home in La Finca urbanizationon the outskirts of Madrid, where they live most famous and footballers per square meter.
OPEN CASE, the investigation and events channel of Prensa Ibérica, reconstructs in this report the investigation of the Central Narcotics Brigade of the National Police and the Anti-drug Prosecutor of the National Court, ten months of work and still with pending issues such as knowing what cartel either cartels they were behind the project that had turned a house in a Galician village into a drug laboratory more typical of the Colombian jungle.
Escobar, the Miami…
Agents from the Central Brigade watched for weeks Hernando Sanchez Reythe brother of an old acquaintance of his, Germán, alias the pigtails. “This is an important narco, he was a link for Crazy barrier, a kind of successor of Pablo Escobar, who is serving a sentence in the United States,” explain sources from the fight against drugs.
the pigtailscurrently in prison, “worked with cartels in Bogotá, with important people; in Madrid, he was with the Miamialways with very strong people”. His brother, investigated several times, was still free. And he settled in the La Finca urbanizationon the outskirts of Madrid, one of the more than most luxurious in Spain. Soccer players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Fernando Torres and they live famous as Paloma Cuevas, Alejandro Sanz and David Bustamanteamong others.
The organization’s leader in Spain lived among celebrities at La Finca. With no known job, he spent about 15,000 euros a month while the police watched him
A house on the Estate is worth between four and twenty million euros. An apartment, from 900,000 euros. There, surrounded by celebrities and soccer players, the brother of the pigtails wearing a “luxury life” no known job and spending about 15,000 euros per month, according to sources of the case. In order to investigate it and go unnoticed in that exclusive area with private security, the agents of the Central Narcotics Brigade had to blend in with the environment.
Some days, the cops disguised as Amazon delivery men or other delivery companies. At night, they posed as wealthy neighbors. To hit, they used luxury cars confiscated from other drug traffickers in police operations.
Connection with the Canary Islands
The brother of the pigtailsnow in prison by order of the National Court, never traveled to see the cocaine lab that they had installed in a forest in a village in Pontevedra, Cerdedo-Cotobade, very close to a river. The owner of the house, a Venezuelan citizen, stated that she had sold it to a company a year ago and had nothing to do with what later happened there. The truth is that one of the detainees in the police operation is your daughter’s partner. It is one of the Canarian narcos. “Possibly they saw that it was the right place to set up the laboratory. It was very close to Portugal and about 150 kilometers from the Leixoes portwhere they would unload the camouflaged cocaine,” sources in the case explain.
The two narcos residing in the gran canaria island they were old acquaintances from the Central Narcotics Brigade. Discreet people, without fanfare, with a low profile. One of them had a reform company. Taking advantage of the personal relationship with the owner’s daughter, they chose the Galician chalet to install the laboratory. The drug arrived inside a camouflaged machine in such a complicated way that members of the organization it took three days to open it. The machine was actually a stone crusher It’s filled with cocaine. The police specialists then used 14 more hours to open another.
The basque scrap dealer
The new one trend in drug trafficking is bring base paste to Europe, not cocaine, and set up laboratories here in the area where it is going to be sold. The attempt that was made in Galicia is the largest known to date. In this case, “the Colombians put the logistics of the laboratory and a Mexican group provided the financing and also the machine to hide it”, explain police sources. The machine arrived in Spain on behalf of a basque scrap metal company. When the drugs were released, the machine would be used for scrap. Nothing is wasted.
Inside the laboratory, in the Galician village, all the chefs those in charge of turning the paste into drugs to sell were incommunicado. They work there, they live there, they don’t leave the house, some – all of them are men – dare to lean out of the window and smoke a cigarette. In that hidden laboratory in the woods He only has a mobile phone notary, the one in charge of certifying that everything is going well. The rest have had to leave their phones in a flat in the center of Pontevedra, which they rented very close to the courts.
The cooks convert the base paste into a drug using precursors, cutting it and accelerating the production of cocaine thanks to cylindrical devicesin slang known as martians, of which there were seven in the Galician ship. Before spring, the laboratory is already at full capacity.
Father’s Day
The researchers follow a van from a well-known company of transport that goes to the Galician ship and cargo. It’s Father’s Day, March 19. The driver had removed the GPS from the van so that they could not follow him, so the agents cut the Nacional VI at the San Rafael (Segovia) tollbooth, which originated a huge crowd of citizens who return to the capital after spending a few days away. In the van there were, inside boxes stuffed with Styrofoam, hundred kilos of cocaine.
That same night, the police enter the laboratory in the Galician forest. They culminate ten months of work and arrest the canaries, the Basque businessman, the cooks and, in his luxury house in Madrid, the brother of the pigtails. They have prevented the largest cocaine laboratory in Europe from setting up in Spain, with the capacity to produce about two hundred kilos of coke up to date.
They also prevented it from being dumped into the nearby river about 24 thousand liters of chemical products as ether and sulfuric acid that they were going to generate lethal contamination and kill the vegetation and fauna
recover 1,300 kilos of base paste of cocaine and 24,000 liters of chemical precursors to cook it and turn it into drugs. They also find others fifty kilos of coke marked with the superman logothe signature of the cartel that owns the drug, a kind of seal of quality with which they guarantee its origin and its quality for the client.