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The fight against drug trafficking is making steady progress in Andalusia, with more open judicial investigations into

linked to drug trafficking networks and also with more investigations into

connected to drug traffickers.

This is confirmed by the latest

, which shows an exhaustive X-ray of Andalusian crime and the investigations opened by judges, prosecutors and the Security Forces and Bodies in the community.

The Report was presented this Thursday by the Superior Prosecutor of Andalusia,

, to the President of Parliament,

.

The President of Parliament and the Superior Prosecutor of Andalusia, Ana Tárrago. PARLIAMENT

The document highlights the "important qualitative progress" in money laundering investigations connected with drug trafficking, since in the last year

of this type

have been

, which allow "attacking the

obtained illicitly and go beyond drug seizures. "

A hot spot in the fight against drug trafficking is the province of Cádiz, the gateway for drugs and the settlement site for numerous networks of traffickers.

In fact, in this province, 79 procedures have been opened for money laundering related to drug traffickers, of which 55 have been

;

a "very high" figure - highlights the Report of the Prosecutor's Office for the year 2020-, which derives from the increase in personal resources in the money laundering units, especially in the Ocón Sur group.

In 2020, more procedures of this type have been opened than in 2019.

Investigators also pursue the proceeds of these crimes by seizing numerous assets, such as boats and motor vehicles, but also

.

Despite the progress in the fight against money laundering and drug trafficking, the Office of the Prosecutor's Report remarks that it is "essential" to provide

to specialized bodies in the fight against this type of crime, "since the profits obtained from trafficking of drugs, as we know, are the main motor of this activity, being investigations that require numerous data that must be studied in detail ".

To improve these investigations, it would be equally "desirable" a "closer" collaboration between the different units and the

, which, through the Customs Surveillance Service, has databases "much more precise than those that judges and judges can handle. prosecutors ", adds the Memory.

Police Corruption

Another key issue in the fight against drug trafficking is to closely monitor these networks and their links with the Civil Guard and the National Police, since there have been "numerous

police officers to facilitate drug trafficking. , as alerted by the delegate of the Prosecutor's Office in Algeciras.

An example of this is the operation that resulted in the arrest, in July 2020, of an agent of the Civil Guard of Algeciras for the crime of

. After the investigation, their connection to the profits obtained by the Clan de narcos de los

, since the agent's partner was the owner of a workshop through which this organization could be laundering the money from their activities. This matter is being investigated in a court in Algeciras.

The Prosecutor's Office points out that the links between civil guards, police officers and drug traffickers do not occur only in the province of Cádiz, "but it is certainly where more money moves and where there is more capacity to corrupt these agents," as revealed by the

State

in the

since 2018.

There are examples of police corruption also in Huelva and other parts of the province of Cádiz. Thus, Court number 2 of

investigates an agent of the Civil Guard for his collaboration with these crimes and the Court of

number 1 ended in 2020 investigations against a local policeman of the town who collaborated with a gang of known traffickers, with whose leader, currently on the run from justice, he had commercial relations, in addition to helping in the crime against public health. Two caches of 2,000 and 1,000 kilos were intervened in this raid.

Likewise, the

of the Civil Guard's Internal Affairs Service, resulted in

the arrest of the two components of a Civil Guard patrol

in

who participated both in the organization and execution of caches, as well as in the execution of

.

In Seville, Investigative Court number 10 investigates the participation of a member of the Civil Guard in the theft from within the Civil Guard Command of

.

These investigations derive from a case that is processed in the Central Court of Instruction number 4 of the National Court.

Assaults on agents

The other side of the coin is the acts of violence by drug traffickers against the Security Forces and Bodies.

During 2020,

especially in the province of Cádiz.

There were attacks, using the drug loading vehicles themselves to attack the patrols that were chasing them or trying to stop them.

"This type of violence has always existed, being especially virulent in the Campo de Gibraltar and of special relevance the attack on a

who was

", says the Report.

This matter is being investigated in a court in Algeciras.

During 2020, the Prosecutor's Office has formulated four indictments in Andalusia for crimes of attack on authority by drug traffickers.

International networks

In Malaga, the Memory of the Prosecutor's Office notes the "considerable increase" of transnational groups and organizations dedicated to the cultivation and export of

, as well as the introduction of hashish for its subsequent distribution throughout Europe, especially to Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. United.

These international networks have

to launder the profits obtained from drug trafficking.

The Office of the Prosecutor highlights the speed of these investigations, since "we are achieving that it is carried out almost simultaneously with the investigation of the crime of drug trafficking, despite its greater investigative complexity."

In Granada, investigators have also focused on these laundering investigations, leading to various proceedings in the capital's courts, all of them derived from

.

Marijuana

"We maintain the verification that all Andalusia has become a place of marijuana production, being one of the

in the community," warns the Andalusian Prosecutor's Office.

Marijuana is joined by another "core business":

large-scale

, introduced along the coast by sea that "persists in its magnitude."

As for

, "wholesale traffic persists", especially at the Algeciras container dock, but large caches have also been detected in Huelva and on several high-speed vessels in that area or in Malaga, which makes Investigators suspect the opening of a new route, coming from Morocco and Mauritania, adds the Memory.

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