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Bulgarian money laundering network brought down

In order to sell marijuana on a wide scale, they were cultivating a lot of it in an apartment in Elche and laundering the proceeds through a car wash in a Valencia town. According to sources involved in the inquiry, the National Police have dissolved the network after apprehending seven suspected members, all of whom are Bulgarian nationals.

The police started the investigation in November of last year after learning about a group of Bulgarian-born people living in the Valencia region who were heavily involved in the production and export of marijuana. The information obtained indicates that the suspects operated a business to launder the profits after exporting the narcotic via authorised transportation.

To dismantle the organisation, the General Judicial Police Station’s Illicit Vehicle Trafficking group and the Valencia Provincial Judicial Police Brigade’s Organised Crime group organised an operation.

The network’s ringleaders enjoyed a high quality of living, according to preliminary findings. According to the same sources, the trustworthy individual, who occasionally worked at the facilities, had a recent history of committing similar crimes to those being investigated. He was occasionally gone from the laundry to perform tasks associated with purchasing materials or supplies for marijuana cultivation, the agents discovered under monitoring.

As police investigations proceeded, detectives discovered that multiple scheme participants had visited a property in Elche that included “typical elements used in the cultivation of marijuana.”

130 kg of marijuana in the possession of a truck driver

Agents discovered a meeting between the suspects and a transporter at the end of last year. The transporter was travelling with a vehicle and trailer that had Bulgarian license plates. Following the interaction, they saw that they were giving directions to the truck driver, who proceeded to Castellón via the Mediterranean Motorway until being stopped by officers from the Castellón Provincial Police Station.

They looked inside the vehicle and found that the only items inside were eight cardboard cartons with about 130 kg of vacuum-packed marijuana buds. The impacts included the seizure of almost 1,000 pounds sterling.

Three searches in the province of Valencia and a fourth in Elche, where a marijuana plantation guarded by the truck driver detained in Castellón was dismantled, marked the operation’s conclusion on February 17th.

Seven persons were arrested, and the organization’s leaders were taken along with £33,000, €7,000 in cash, and five vehicles. The judicial authorities have already met with the arrested, four of whom had criminal records.

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21 expensive cars that were stolen in the U.S. were found Valencia port

Together with the US Container Security Initiative, the Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency found 21 high-end cars that were stolen in the U.S. and were on their way to Africa in the port of Valencia. The cars, which were worth a total of €1.1 million, were reported stolen and were being moved in containers.

The cars were stolen in the U.S. and were on their way to different places in Africa, stopping in Valencia’s port. Risk analysis units made up of Guardia Civil and Tax Agency officers were able to find several packages that might not have had the goods that were claimed to have been inside.

With the help of the information gathered, it was confirmed that stolen cars that had been in Valencia on their way to the United States had actually arrived. The groups that ship stolen cars either traded legally declared cars for stolen ones or directly declared the stolen cars as other goods, like furniture or mattresses.

In the past few weeks, 21 vehicles have been found and will be sent back to their home countries to be given to their original owners.

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14 immigrants were saved on a boat 45 miles off the coast of Alicante

On Wednesday, 2nd April, the Maritime Rescue ship Salvamar Leo saved 14 immigrants who were travelling in a boat about 45 miles from Alicante.

In the middle of the afternoon on Wednesday, Maritime Rescue sent out its Helimer 223 helicopter and the Salvamar Leo, which is based in Alicante, to save the people on a small boat.

Their journey began on the Salvamar Leo, which took them to the Temporary Assistance Centre for Foreigners in the port of Alicante. There, the Red Cross took care of them.

The Red Cross says that all of the refugees they saved were men, and two of them were younger than 15 years old. They were all healthy after being treated.

The National Police took over the refugees after getting help from the Red Cross. They are now trying to find the boat’s captain so they can arrest him, as is normal in these situations.

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Dénia wrestler arrested in connection with a network that smuggled 300 kilos of cocaine from Ecuador

The National Police’s Drugs and Organised Crime Unit arrested a famous mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter from Dénia. He was part of a gang that was partly broken up in August over a shipment of 300 kg of cocaine from Ecuador that came into the port of Valencia. The fighter from Dénia is one of five people who were caught by police. Along with nine other gang members who were already in jail at the time, they are now in jail.

The man who was arrested in Dénia is thought to be the trusted man of the gang’s leader, who is also an MMA fighter, and the person who is said to have worked as a go-between in the operation.

Levante-EMV also says that the broken-down network is linked to another shipment of 490 kg of cocaine that came into the port of Valencia in April of last year.

The five people who were just caught went before Valencia’s Investigative Court No. 20 yesterday, April 3rd.