In a decisive military operation, these individuals were apprehended, accused of receiving cocaine shipments in the European continent.
Troops of the National Army, jointly and inter-institutional with the Colombian Air Force, the Attorney General's Office and with the support of the Special Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office of the National Court of Spain, arrested in Madrid, Spain, 12 individuals accused of belonging to the residual Organized Armed Group, GAO-r, Jaime Martínez structure.
The military operation carried out in three phases led the troops of the Magdalena Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group), with the support of the Military Intelligence Battalion No.3 and the Spanish authorities, to arrest 12 individuals, including six individuals from Colombia, four from Spain, one from Belgium and one from Morocco, for the crime of trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics.
Reports of the judicial authorities indicate that these persons, who are apparently linked to the residual GAO, were in charge in the European country of receiving, allegedly, shipments of cocaine from South America, which would later be marketed in small quantities in several cities in Spain and France.
During the operation it was possible to find 751 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, that would cost approximately 83 billion pesos; they also found €99,500 euros, equivalent to 440 million Colombian pesos.
These people were given to the Spanish authorities, who will continue to conduct their respective prosecution process.
Source: press-National Army
