• The research has been carried out in two phases; In the first, 24 people have been arrested for crimes against public health and crimes against consumers, among others, and 390,000 euros in cash and 24,000 euros in virtual currencies have been seized, resulting in assets of 7,500,000 to those investigated. euros
• In the second phase, ten people have been arrested for money laundering and belonging to a criminal organization who would have deposited more than 1,100,000 euros in cash through their accounts and those of companies in their name, and would have introduced them into the legal circuit. financial more than five million euros unjustifiably
• The organization obtained profits through the sale in Spain of anabolics in food supplement stores for athletes.

February 27, 2024.- Customs Surveillance Officials from the Tax Agency, in a joint operation with agents from the National Police, have dismantled a criminal organization dedicated to illicit trafficking of anabolic drugs and money laundering. The organization allegedly obtained profits through the sale in Spain of anabolics in food supplement stores for athletes. The investigation has been carried out in two phases, in which 24 people have been arrested for crimes against public health, among others, in the first of them; and ten people for money laundering in the second phase.

The investigation began when agents from the Central Specialized and Violent Crime Unit received a communication from the Bulgarian Attaché Office in Spain, which reported the shipment of anabolics through parcel delivery companies to the province of Cádiz.

After the investigations carried out in the first phase, at the end of 2022, 24 people were arrested for crimes against public health, membership in a criminal organization, crimes against consumers and document falsification.

During this first phase of exploitation of the police operation, it culminated in the intervention of 390,000 euros in cash, 690,000 euros blocked in bank accounts, 24,000 euros in different cryptocurrencies, four vehicles seized, and 53 vehicles and 25 properties immobilized. The assets revealed by the total of those investigated are close to 7,500,000 euros.

Money laundering investigation

In the second phase, and based on the asset investigation for laundering purposes carried out by Customs Surveillance, more than one hundred bank accounts were analyzed, it was possible to demonstrate that during the years 2020 to 2022 the detainees had deposited more than 1,100,000 in cash. euros through their personal accounts and those of companies in their name, as well as that they have introduced more than five million euros into the legal financial circuit unjustifiably.

The large volume of cash used by those investigated has been fully accredited, in addition to the volume of income located in their accounts, by the significant amounts of cash intervened in the searches carried out, with some of them locating more than 100,000 euros. in small wads of bills and distributed in different rooms of the homes. Part of the cash was used for the acquisition of movable and immovable property paid directly with cash amounts.

This investigation began in the Investigative Court number one of San Roque (Cádiz), and is currently being investigated by the Central Investigative Court number 5 of Madrid.