A network falls in Seville that sold almost 600 tons of olives with false documentation

The Civil Guard has dismantled a network that sold almost 600 tons of olives with false documentation in towns in the province of Seville and it is suspected that the sale was made under these conditions to launder money. The operation, with seven investigated, has been carried out by the Roca team of the Civil Guard of the Osuna Company, within a campaign aimed at investigating and clarifying the criminal acts that occurred during the entire olive harvest period..

During the so-called Operation Madroño 23 and with the collaboration of farmers, rural security personnel, associations and other collaborating entities, 18 crimes of theft of important olives were clarified, 28 people were investigated as perpetrators of these crimes and around 30,000 kilograms of olives, intervened in the different actions.

As a result of this investigation and in parallel, a new operation began, in which the agents focused on olive purchase stalls located in the Sierra Sur Sevillana, where the presence of groups of people transporting olives covered with documents was detected. of accompaniment of the fruit (DAT) that raised the suspicions of the agents in relation to their origin.

With the support of the Territorial Delegation of Agriculture of Seville, sufficient evidence was obtained that proved the commission of numerous crimes of forgery in the public documents used in the activities carried out by the people responsible for the olive purchase centers..

Due to these facts, the investigation of seven people was carried out as alleged perpetrators of alleged crimes of falsification in public documents and it was shown that 553,849 kilos of olives were delivered and ground under the protection of falsified documentation..

In addition to submitting the proceedings to the Investigating Courts of Osuna and Estepa to determine criminal responsibilities, an extensive report was drawn up that was addressed to the Territorial Delegation of Agriculture in Seville in order to determine if there could also be administrative ones in relation to the food traceability of the product.