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Date Published: 17/01/2022

ARCHIVED - Spanish Pablo Escobar arrested for heroin trafficking

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Nine gang members and the notorious ringleader were arrested in Toledo

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Spanish Pablo Escobar arrested for heroin trafficking

The National Police have seized 55 kilograms of heroin, one of the largest hauls in recent years, as part of an operation to bring down Spain’s main narcotics importer. The ringleader of the gang, known by investigators as “the Spanish Pablo Escobar”, had his base of operations in the province of Toledo and trafficked huge amounts of the drug from the Netherlands before distributing it through Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y Leon and Extremadura.

Sources close to the case also report that the dealer was “closely associated” with an international criminal organisation led by a Turkish man known as “El Paralítico” (‘The Paralytic’) and that he had travelled to Istanbul twice in 2021 to personally negotiate heroin shipments.

Investigators have revealed that the so-called Escobar had established several ‘stash houses’ across Spain where he would store the heroin and transfer it to his network of couriers to be distributed throughout the country.

Six other men and three women, including a married couple, were also arrested and several homes, a car dealership and workshop were searched in the provinces of Madrid, Toledo and Caceres. In the various houses, a large press for making packages of heroin and more than 21,000 euros in cash were seized, along with a shotgun, a pistol, a revolver, ammunition, several phones and six cars.

At the workshop in Caceras owned by the couple, the Police seized more than 51,000 euros in cash, various moulds for pressing heroin packages, jewellery, a pistol, a revolver, a shotgun, ammunition, twelve cars and a shotgun.

Image: Policía Nacional

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