Agents of the National Police and officials of Customs Surveillance of the Tax agency 16 people have been arrested in the provinces of Las Palmas (5), Tenerife (8), Madrid (2) and A Coruña (1) for his alleged participation in crimes of belonging to a criminal organization and against public health.
The operation has been carried out jointly by the National Police and the Customs Surveillance Service, under the direction of the Coslada Investigating Court number 1.
The investigation began in April of last year when the agents received news that there would be a traffic of hormonal anabolic substances from Bulgaria and Portugal to Spain. After the development of the police investigation, it was found that the recipient of the packages containing these substances would also have a relationship with soccer groups of radical ideology.
He modus operandi of this organization would be based on the receipt of illegal medicinal substances (hormonal anabolics) that were sent to Spain from countries such as Portugal, Bulgaria or the United Kingdom.
Once in Spain, two cells of the organization, from the provinces of Madrid and La Coruña, received these substances and sent them to the Canary Islands through postal parcels, trying to evade border controls, and using the affiliation of third parties.
Almost a ton of anabolics in a year
With this modus operandi, the organization, during the year 2022, would have imported an amount greater than 900 kilos of anabolics, which provided its members with huge benefits that supported the high standard of living that they flaunted on social networks.
After an investigation that lasted for almost a year, last Wednesday, March 22, the police device was established for the arrest of a total of 16 people and the practice of 12 simultaneous records in the provinces of Tenerife, Las Palmas, Madrid and A Coruña.
The result of these records has been seized about 250,000 doses of illegal anabolic drug products. In the same way, other narcotic substances, cash, computer material that will be analyzed and abundant documentation on the shipments made by the network were seized. The detainees went to the judicial disposal of the various judicial districts affected, being the head of the trial court No. 1 of Coslada (Madrid) who understands the cause.
