The Civil Guard and the Foral Police of Navarra dismantle the largest marijuana crop in Europe

Agents of the Civil Guard and the

have dismantled in a joint operation the largest marijuana crop in Europe, they have arrested three people in

and charged another two in the

.

According to a statement from the Navarre Command,

have been destroyed that could have been sold for 30 million euros for processing into

and other derivatives, with which they would have reached 100 million euros in the market.

The investigation began in the middle of last year when an agent discovered a large hemp plantation of questionable legality.

The investigations between both police forces in the Navarran towns of

and

led to the location of 11 hemp-growing farms with some 415,000 plants and which occupied an area of ​​67 hectares.

The person in charge of the cultivation had given an apparent legality of the plantations carried out, informing the agents that the destination was the use of hemp for industrial use.

However, the economic investment that this man had made, as well as the final destination of these plants in countries such as

or

, known for the processing for the production of CBD-derived products, an activity prohibited in

, raised suspicions.

For this, the detainees had prepared a large industrial warehouse in Artajona equipped with a ventilation and temperature system for drying the plants.

In the course of the investigation, it was also learned that a truck loaded with these already dry plants was going to leave for Italy, so that shipment was intercepted when it left the "dryer" ship.

Some 23,000 cannabis plants were seized inside, while another 13,000 marijuana plants were found in the process of drying, which yielded a total weight of 50,740 kilos.

These plants have already been destroyed after the authorization of the Investigating Court number 1 of Tafalla and later the rest of the plants that were still unharvested, and that added some 375,000 more, were cut down and destroyed.

For the transportation tasks to the authorized centers and for the in situ destruction of the plantations, the investigators had the support and collaboration of CITCO (

).

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