The Civil Guard has arrested three members of a criminal organization dedicated to international cocaine trafficking in the town of Robliza de Cojos in Salamanca. The operation, called "ERGU", began in Cantabria and has allowed the intervention of 600 kilos of cocaine transported in a motorhome.
The results of the operation were presented on Wednesday by the government delegates in Cantabria and Castilla y León, Eugenia Gómez de Diego and Nicanor Ser, respectively, together with the Chief General of the Civil Guard of Castilla y León, José Antonio Fernández de Luz, and the Chief Colonel of Cantabria, Antonio Orantos.
The investigations, carried out in collaboration with the Ertzaintza, have dismantled a criminal structure that imported drugs from Latin America, used Portugal as a point of entry to the European Union and Spain as a place of storage and distribution. The network had a sophisticated logistics system that included vehicles with double funds and other means adapted for the transport of large quantities of drugs.
According to the investigators, the detainees took advantage of the Christmas period to carry out the drug transfer, using a motorhome to mask illicit activity under the guise of a holiday trip.
On December 20, agents of the Civil Guard of Cantabria, in collaboration with the Ertzaintza and members of the Command of Salamanca, intercepted in Robliza de Cojos a motorhome in which they found 600 kilos of cocaine. The occupants of a French-registered shuttle vehicle, which was used to detect police controls and ensure the security of the cargo, were also arrested.
The three arrested, men of Spanish nationality and residents of the Basque Country, have been placed at the disposal of the Second Examining Court of Laredo, which has decreed their entry into prison.
As part of the operation, searches were carried out on properties in Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, where several high-end vehicles valued at more than half a million euros were seized, as well as cash, banknote counting machines, scales and packaging material.
The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, highlighted the work of the agents of the Civil Guard and also of the Ertzaintza, "for their professionalism and dedication that have allowed them to deal a significant blow to another drug trafficking network operating in our country."
"I want to highlight the professionalism, the collaboration, the rigor with which the investigations are carried out and the evident results that bring us here today. Less drugs on our streets, less crime, more peace of mind and security," he said.
After recalling another recent joint operation between the Civil Guard of Cantabria and the Ertzaintza that allowed the dismantling of one of the most sophisticated amphetamine laboratories, Gómez de Diego stressed that Operation ERGU is a "clear example" of the collaboration between institutions and police forces, both nationally and internationally, "key to dismantling criminal networks and taking from the market a large amount of drug that would otherwise have been put on the street."
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