A repentant of Ceuta’s drug trafficking confirms payments of up to 100,000 euros per stash to civil guards | Spain
One of the 14 detainees in the Operation of the Civil Guard in which a narcotúnel was discovered in Ceuta He assured the judge of the National Court María Tardón, who instructs the cause against the plot that this underground gallery used to introduce large amounts of hashish in the Autonomous City and then take them to the Peninsula, that the agents of the armed institute allegedly involved charged between 70,000 and 100,000 euros per stile according to their size. In his statement before the magistrate, whose recording the country has had access, the drug trafficker confessed also recognizes that one of the roads used by the network to introduce the drug in Ceuta was precisely this clandestine passage, whose entry into a ship without activity of the El Tarajal polygon, very close to the border with Morocco, helped to locate the researchers.
In his testimony, the detainee, who identifies himself as a member of the organization that was responsible for spending hidden drugs to the peninsula hidden in trucks, facilitates the name, alias or physical characteristics of, at least three civil guard agents that, allegedly, facilitated the plot to overcome the controls in the port so that the loaded vehicles of the hashís could embark on the Ferri heading of the south of Spain.
The investigated, who was in prison at the time of his appearance, had accepted his right not to declare when he was arrested last February, but later showed his willingness to collaborate with the investigations and asked to appear before the judge of the National Court. According to his story, he « decided to collaborate » in the barracks, when he was with a captain, a captain and a Lieutenant of the Civil Guard. « We were talking about the Civil Guard of the port, the mechanics and the ways that the merchandise entered Ceuta, » he said at the judicial headquarters. The investigated pointed to an agent, RG, a member of the « group of mechanics » as the person who « had the rein of all civil guards. » « He gave us the days, it facilitated the days he could work, you know? And any rare information from the port that if red or there was any sneak or anything weird that he did not like, he informed us so that we had him in mind, » he said.
The investigated indicated that another person, of whom he only provided the name of a battery, delivered the money to the Civil Guard RG depending on the volume of the drug cargo. « Depending on the amount, it charged money or others, between 70 and 100,000 euros. For example, the truck they took in Marbella, 70,000 euros. Other trucks that took more quantity, 100,000 euros, » he explained.
The investigated also assured that he had spoken to the researchers of the Narcotúnel. « Apart from the merchandise that entered through the border of Tarajal, I told him that there was another entrance method and that it was through a tunnel and was in the Tarajal polygon, » he said. According to his explanations, they asked him what was the ship in which he was and gave indications to locate it among the constructions « that most connected to the gate » and were « closer to Morocco and the houses. » Subsequently, the agents requested judicial commandments to register the ships he had indicated and that allowed to locate the clandestine infrastructure.
The existence of a drugged was known last February After agents of the subsoil recognition unit (USE) of the Civil Guard located the mouth of the gallery in the ship of an old marble that had no activity since the closure of the border occurred in March 2020, when the health crisis of the COVID-19 exploded. The business was in the El Tarajal polygon, very close to the border. A springboard gave access to a tunnel propped up with timbers 12 meters deep with measures of 40 centimeters wide by 60 centimeters high That, in some sections, they were broader and allowed a person to stand up, as detailed in the police operation. The passage, which had its own lighting and a drain system, was built years ago with the help of heavy machinery and its connoisseurs compare it with those that They build Mexican drug traffickers to introduce drugs in the United States from border cities.
The security forces had since before the pandemic with the suspicion that there was a gallery of these characteristics by which criminal organizations supplied Ceuta in large amounts of hashish from Morocco. That conjecture was consolidated in December 2023, when the Civil Guard intercepted in the port of the North African city, about to go out in Ferri towards Algeciras (Cádiz), a truck that transported hidden between waste 3,000 kilos of hashish, an amount of drug that exceeded, with much, that the plots can strain through the legal border steps of the border.
The so -called Hades operation began (in reference to the God of the underworld in Greek mythology) which, after more than a year of investigation, led to a first phase, developed at the end of January, in which the prison official and deputy of the Ceuta Assembly for the movement for dignity and citizenship (MDYC) Mohamed Ali Duas, as well as two civil guard agents. The three entered the jail by order of the judge of the National Court María Tardón. Since then, the operation has added two other phases and already accumulates 14 arrests and 6,000 kilos of hasshish intervened in the three trucks intercepted so far. In the third phase the drug trafficking was discovered.
