Oviedo (EFE).- The Civil Guard and the National Police have aborted the attempt by a criminal organization of Colombian origin to establish a new route for the introduction of cocaine from South America that intended to use the port of Gijón as a route of entry to Spain .
A joint operation of the Civil Guard, the National Police and Customs Surveillance ended last Monday with the seizure of 130 kilos of cocaine that were hidden in a ship docked in the port of Gijón, coming from Colombia.
In the operation, a stowaway of Colombian origin was arrested as allegedly responsible for the shipment, and that the State Security Forces and Bodies linked to a criminal network that was trying to use the Port of El Musel as a new entry route.
Prison for the stowaway caught with 130 kilos of drugs
The Investigating Court number 2 of Gijón has already ordered his entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail for the stowaway, to whom he attributes an alleged crime against public health in the form of drug trafficking that causes serious damage to health.
According to the information extended this Wednesday in a joint statement by the National Police and the Civil Guard, the detainee was hidden on the Liberian-flagged ship from the Port of Barranquilla, and was provided with the necessary food and drink for the journey, “perfectly equipped to ensure the arrival of cocaine to the Asturian coast.”
The system used allowed him to have the drug perfectly located, distributed in four bundles, even once it was thrown into the sea or transferred to another place, according to the investigators.
Cooperation and coordination between the different institutions has been key to frustrating the initiative of drug traffickers, which has made it possible to leave the new route “unusable”.
Within the functions attributed to each Organism, the Civil Guard took charge of the narcotic substance, with the National Police being in charge of processing the different procedures and making the detainee available to the competent Judicial Authority. EFE
