A band that used diving propulsion vehicles to collect cocaine attached to merchants | falls in Pontevedra | Spain

National Police agents have dismantled an organization dedicated to rescu cocaine that reached the ports of Marín and Vigo attached under the flotation line of merchant ships and have arrested eight alleged drug traffickers in Pontevedra, seven Spanish nationality and another of Albanian origin. The operation has allowed to know a new method of traffickers for drug transport by intercepting professional diving teams commercially known as Seascootersome submarine artifacts that allow recovering the cocaine bales that are transferred under the flotation line of the merchants so as not to be discovered. The rapid propulsion of these small vehicles allows them to travel important distances, although maritime conditions are adverse, sources from the Interior Ministry have reported.

The operation began in the month of February, when communication was received from the American agency DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) in which he was alerted that an international criminal organization intended to carry out the transport of a significant amount of cocaine, bundles attached to the Russian loading helmet Crown Garnet who arrived at the port of Marín (Pontevedra) in the early hours of February 21.

When the arrival and mooring of the porteños to port was detected, the agents made a record in order to locate the possible narcotic substance that could house inside. The researchers found in one of the cooling habitats, under the flotation line, four bales of those that are commonly made for the concealment and transport of cocaine of about 120 kilograms.

The agents already carried out an investigation into a Galician criminal organization dedicated to drug trafficking, efforts that allowed to link this group with the people who tried to recover the narcotic that the ship carried. The researchers clearly and forcefully determined the structure of the organization and the role of each member, so an operation that culminated on May 7 with the arrest of eight people in different locations in Pontevedra was prepared and that are pending to be brought to court.

Professional diving equipment

In the domiciliary records practiced, professional diving teams were intervened Seascooterwhich made the agents suspect that this would be the method used for the rescue of the narcotic. In addition, different amounts of narcotic substance, 150 grams of cocaine, 70 grams of heroin, and 100 grams of hashish were also intervened, indicating that the investigated also handled other drugs for sale, according to police sources.

The operation, directed by the Court of Instruction two of those of Vilagarcía de AruSo and the Special Prosecutor’s Anti -Drug Prosecutor of Pontevedra It remains open, so new arrests are not ruled out or the relationship of suspects with other shipments intervened in Galicia in recent months.

The raid of agents of the central unit of displaced narcotics from Madrid focused on the Pontevedresas de Bueu and Vilanova de Aruous, where they made at least five records on properties of the detainees.