Spanish police dismantle major heroin trafficking ring

Spanish police announced on October 30 that they had dismantled a large-scale heroin trafficking ring, arresting 36 people and seizing heroin worth up to 2 million euros ($2.5 million).

This is the largest amount of heroin confiscated by Spanish police in 2014.

Spanish police display packages of drugs seized during a raid. (Source: AFP/VNA)

According to the police announcement, the group is suspected of supplying heroin to "drug lords" in the Catalunya region, northeastern Spain, as well as selling directly to addicts.

The profits from drug trafficking would be transferred to Morocco for the kingpins to "launder" by buying real estate.

The bust of the heroin trafficking ring was the result of an investigation launched in February, after Spanish police discovered a "major heroin selling location" in the town of El Vendrell, about 70 km south of the Catalan capital Barcelona, ​​where the "headquarters" of this criminal group was located./.

According to VNA