As part of the operation ‘Embarcadero-Bamboo’ The Civil Guard of the Seville and Tenerife commands arrested seven people who together formed an alleged criminal organization dedicated to the acquisition and modification of firearms. … with ammunition intended to then be sold on the illicit market, as well as their involvement in the trafficking of large quantities of cocaine.
Through the analysis of the information obtained, seven houses were entered and searched in different localities in the provinces of Seville and Tenerife, and several offices and warehouses linked to the organization where more than 30 short weapons and detonators transformed to carry out live shots in perfect working order were seized, as well as more than 1,300 metal cartridges. Additionally, there was an intervention large quantities of narcotic substancesluxury jewelry and watches, money counting machines and more than 30,000 euros in cash, in addition to various specific equipment to detect police surveillance.
Inside one of the registered warehouses was an office converted into a workshop for manufacturing or processing firearms, manufactured at the request of other criminal groups and equipped with a soundproof test bench where customers could test the weapons they ordered.
At the same time, the Civil Guard confirmed that the organization transported every week more than 50 kilos of cocaine from Seville and Madrid to Tenerife. During the investigation, several packages containing more than 20 kilos of cocaine were seized.
Following the investigations and actions carried out by the Civil Guard, the organization which operated mainly in the provinces of Seville, Madrid and Tenerife, and whose illicit activities in gun and drug trafficking They posed a serious risk to public safety. The operation ends with the arrest of seven people placed at the disposal of the competent judicial authority, decreeing the immediate entry into temporary prison without bail of five of the detainees.
The “Embarcadero-Bambú” operation, which begins with the search area of the main post of San Juan de Aznalfarache, and ends up being led by specialized higher units in the area of arms trafficking, the Seville command highlights coordination between the different levels of investigation units. All this under the direction of the Court of Instruction number 14 of Seville.
The links between arms trafficking and organized crime make the fight against this threat one of the priorities of the current political cycle of the European Union and of the national strategy to combat organized and serious crime. Within the framework of the Civil Guard, this action is part of the objectives of its Strategic Plan, the Special Security Plan (operation “Carteia”) to deal with activities linked to drug trafficking and related crimes, such as firearms trafficking in the south of Spain.
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