Madrid (EFE).- The National Police, in a joint operation with the French security forces, has dismantled one of the largest international designer drug trafficking networks in Spain, which had warehouses that supplied ecstasy, speed, ketamine and other substances to the north of the country, to the island of Ibiza and to the south of France.
In the operation, called Butterfly-1, the agents have arrested 13 people and have intervened 150,000 ecstasy pills, 135 kilos of speed, 25 kilos of ketamine, four kilos of pink cocaine and more than 10,000 liters of drug percussors in the 11 searches carried out in the provinces of Barcelona, Burgos, Cantabria and Madrid, reports the General Directorate of the Police.
The investigation has been coordinated by the Investigating Court number 1 of Alcalá de Henares, a town in Madrid where a speed oil processing laboratory has been dismantled.
This complex facility was run by one of the arrested, known as the Chemist, who also controlled, along with his mother, another laboratory for the production and distribution of anabolic drugs, this one located in Barcelona.
From the beginning of the investigation by the Spanish and French police, the agents detected that the network had no geographical limits for its activity since it produced and distributed narcotics in northern provinces such as Cantabria and Burgos but also in Barcelona, Ibiza, Madrid and the south. from France.
Led by “the boss”
Investigators verified that the organization was led by a Spanish man they called El Jefe, who was in charge of transporting drugs from the Netherlands to Spain.
From his home in Barcelona, he coordinated the entire framework of importation, transformation and distribution of amphetamine sulphate (speed), which they hid in a “daycare” (drug warehouse).
Subsequently, they transferred the substance to Alcalá de Henares, where the agents detected the existence of a laboratory run by the Chemist, the alleged person responsible for the production of speed from the synthetic products that compose it.
At the Alcalá de Henares facility, the Police, when carrying out the search, verified that the chemical reactor that the organization had had the capacity to manufacture 100 kilos of speed per month.
Distribution branch in Burgos and Cantabria
Investigations into the structure of the network revealed the existence of a drug distribution branch in Burgos and Cantabria.
In the first province, the person in charge of the branch had the collaboration of two other members in charge of the transfer of the substances for which they used “heated” vehicles (with hidden compartments to hide the drugs).
Once in Burgos, they delivered the merchandise to a person outside the criminal world in order not to arouse suspicion.
This branch operated in the north of Spain and had a special incidence in the Basque Country.