A huge and full bornery with Madeira’s flag came out two days ago from the port of Vigo, with the idea of making its next scale in Malaga. So far the story of what would have been a bland movement more than an ship of any merchandise if it were not because inside it. For now, the Civil Guard has already discovered 1,300 kilos of white dust inside, but does not rule out that there may be more stored. It will depend on the inspection that the agents still perform the interior of the ship, now tied in the new container terminal of the port of Cádiz, where it has been diverted after the discovery of the drug when it was sailed through the waters of the Bay of Cádiz.
“It has been a casual approach,” sources close to the investigation explain, who have eluded more details about the operation at the beginning. The intervention began on Wednesday night, after the investigators of the Cádiz command had knowledge that the container who crossed the waters of the bay, 40 miles from the coast (about 74 kilometers), hid a possible cristle of cocaine inside.
The suspicions were confirmed when, once escorted by a Civil Guard boat and tied in the port of Cádiz, the researchers have discovered on board the containers 38 bales of cocaine. The drug, which in a first weighing has thrown 1,300 kilos, was arranged in the upper deck, very close to the containers where it is assumed that until that moment the illegal hidden merchandise had traveled.
The bales were wrapped in a network and prepared with strings, prepared to be thrown from the boring ship to a third boat that had to remove them from the ship. In fact, the Civil Guard of Cádiz has discovered that the ship had been assaulted by polizones with the idea of extracting the packages from the containers where hidden and sealed along with other legal merchandise were traveling. The hypothesis with which the Armed Institute of Cádiz works is that the crew of the ship was unaware of the existence of the drug traveled with them, something that is common in other narcotics of narcotics with similar mode of operation.
The researchers do not rule out that the total weight of the intervened cocaine increases in the next few hours, once the registration of the container is concluded and all the merchandise that carries inside. “It continues to inspect, it seems bigger than a city. It has recesses everywhere,” says sources close to the case, which note that the crew is collaborating in search tasks. The ship, with Portuguese flag of Madeira and thrown in 2006, is 221 meters in length and 30 meters of manga. And the agents of the Citizen Security Unit (Usecic) not only look for cocaine, they also try to find the whereabouts of the polizones that boarded the ship on the high seas to get the drug.
Poe is now unknown what the final destination of cocaine was on land, although it is sure that the traffickers intended to get the drug before the ship reached the port of Malaga. In recent months, concern for the appearance of cocaine shells in the Guadalquivir river has grown, where drug traffickers introduce the shipments in Narcolanchas, after transfer operations of the bundles on the high seas. At the beginning of the year, the agents discovered up to 19 tons of cocaine in several seasoning in just one month.
Cocaine as a working merchandise of the narco usually brings a more careful operation of traffickers who usually bring their beans from American countries., Due to the high price of white dust. A kilo of cocaine is worth about 30,000 euros in the Spanish black market, according to calculations from the Ministry of Interior at the beginning of the year. The amount moves away from the 1,800 euros that, according to the same statistic, is paid for the kilo of hashish. And that the estimate of coca is usually lower than the price both wholesale and retailer that reaches in the real market, according to state security forces and bodies.
