A network that used parcel companies to send drugs abroad was dismantled

The National Police has arrested eight people and considers dismantled a criminal organization of Chinese origin, based in Madrid, that was dedicated to international drug trafficking through parcel delivery companies..

According to the Police in a statement released this Saturday, the investigation has proven the relationship of this organization with the shipment of 150 kilos of marijuana to Ireland, the Netherlands and Finland; kilo and a half of a coffee mixture with ketamine, MDMA and methamphetamine to Dubai; and 2.4 kilos of ketamine to Mexico.

Within the framework of this operation, seven searches have been carried out in homes and storage rooms in Madrid, Leganés and Humanes de Madrid and 150 kilos of marijuana, four kilos of synthetic drugs and three vehicles used by members of the organization have been seized..

In their first investigations, the agents detected the shipment to Ireland, from different storage rooms located in the towns of Parla and Humanes in Madrid, of three pallets that concealed a significant amount of marijuana buds inside..

Thanks to the collaboration of the companies that owned the storage rooms where the seized drugs were stored, several members of the group were identified and it was found that they had been making similar shipments for months..

After these first seizures, the group modified its modus operandi and began to divide shipments into smaller packages.. In addition, to make shipments he used foreigners' identity cards that had been stolen..

The agents were able to intercept six other packages of marijuana destined for the Netherlands and Finland and also thwarted the shipment of two packages containing synthetic drugs, hidden in coffee containers inside plates that simulated a double bottom..

One of them, destined for Dubai, contained one and a half kilos of a mixture of coffee with ketamine, MDMA and methamphetamine; and another, which was sent to Mexico, about two and a half kilos of ketamine. The investigation remains open to try to locate possible links between this group and other shipments of synthetic drugs seized abroad..