Customs Surveillance Operation of the Tax Agency

• Two people arrested accused of introducing drugs

20 of February of 2023.- Staff of the Customs Surveillance Operational Unit of the Tax Agency of Cáceres, in collaboration with the Madrid Regional Customs Surveillance Area, has seized 12.42 kilos of cannabis buds and 80 grams of hashish resin, as well as the arrest of two people of Spanish nationality, residing in Caceres.

The operation was carried out on January 31, coordinated by the Madrid Prosecutor's Office, through a controlled delivery of the narcotic substances, which were sent from Italy to a business in the center of the capital of Cáceres, using for delivery to a company messaging.

In the operation, the two partners of the company that was importing the drugs were arrested for an alleged crime against public health and trafficking of narcotic substances, and they were brought to justice. The Judicial Branch has decreed the obligation of those investigated to appear every fifteen days.

Cannabis buds, regardless of their content of the psychoactive tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), are subject to control under Schedule 1 of the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Therefore, cannabis buds can only be produced, distributed or marketed for medical or scientific purposes and with the corresponding legal authorization.