A gang that trafficked anabolic and sexual invigorators in sex shops in Tarragona falls

SPAIN / By Carmen Gomaro

They acquired drugs against erectile dysfunction, anabolic drugs and other substances such as poppers from Holland, China and India and put them up for sale on internet pages and in sex shops in Tarragona, El Vendrell and Reus.. This is how a criminal organization dedicated to the trafficking of illegal drugs acted, dismantled by the Police in an operation with 11 detainees and 11 entries and searches in premises and homes in which 65,000 pills were found, including anabolic and sexual invigorators, 100 popper cans and 80,500 euros. in effects. In addition, the agents have retained 25 kilos of pills in packages destined for buyers distributed throughout Spain.

The investigation began in June of last year when the Technological Investigation Brigade of the Central Cybercrime Unit of the National Police detected various advertisements on different Internet portals, social networks and instant messaging channels in which medicines suspended by the European Union. After inquiring, they were able to establish that it was a criminal group, based in the provinces of Tarragona and Seville and in the municipalities of Malaga and Valencia, which offered and marketed prohibited drugs and others that cannot be distributed without medical supervision.

Specifically, they sold these products on websites, and sent them by parcel, in addition to other physical points of sale in sex shops that they ran in the towns of Tarragona, El Vendrell and Reus.. In addition to the prohibited medicines and the money seized, the agents seized computer equipment used to carry out the sale, three electric weapons, a detonating pistol and 50 blank cartridges.