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The Tax Agency dismantles a criminal organization dedicated to marijuana trafficking

Operation against drug trafficking

  • 1,043 marijuana plants were intervened in a plantation with a complex electrical installation that allowed intensive crops to be carried out and their cycles to be shortened
  • Six individuals from the organization arrested whose electrical fraud was equivalent to the consumption of 70 homes and was made up of a complex air conditioning and lighting system

May 23, 2023.- Customs Surveillance Officials from the Tax Agency have dismantled an organization dedicated to drug trafficking in the municipality of Gójar (Granada) and have arrested its six members.

The operation began weeks ago when investigators from the Customs Surveillance Operational Unit in Motril detected an organized group dedicated to the indoor cultivation and distribution of 'cannabis sativa', in an industrial estate in Gójar.

The operation took place throughout the morning of May 17 and led to the seizure of 1,043 plants weighing approximately 300 kilos of marijuana.

The researchers found that the industrial warehouse had a complex electrical installation that supported the carrying out of intensive crops for this type of plantations, shortening their cycles.

During the operation, six individuals from the organization dedicated to the cultivation of cannabis were identified and arrested. The electrical fraud, discovered by Customs Surveillance Service officials, is equivalent to the consumption of 70 homes and was made up of a complex air conditioning and lighting system.

The investigation remains open and new arrests are not ruled out.

The proceedings and the detainees have been placed at the disposal of the Investigative Court No. 8 of Granada, on guard duty.

Customs Supervision: Presentation of charges for smuggling and related offences 

Free telephone 900351378.

Email: denunciasvigilanciaaduanera@correo.aeat.es

Filming of operation (to download the video you must enter the following web address):

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