20 liters of liquid ecstasy kidnapped in Spain to Argentina | Chronic

A cargo of more than 20 liters of liquid ecstasy, destined to be admitted to Argentina, was seized at the Madrid Barajas airport, as part of an operation. Joint Argentine and Spanish security forces during which two Argentines were arrested, they reported sources of the Ministry of Security.

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The seized substance amounts to 340,000 doses of ecstasy worth 150 million pesos, the spokesmen added. The procedure took place in the last hours and was the result of an investigation opened last July between the staff of the Airport Security Police (PSA) and the General Directorate of Customs (DGA) of The Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) collaborated with the Spanish National Police.

One of the Argentine defendants was arrested at the Barajas airport, while the other was in a building in the city of Buenos Aires, sources said. The investigation began last July, when an Argentinian man traveled from Chile to the province of Córdoba and customs controls discovered a bottle of nutritional supplements whose characteristics did not match the details of l & # 39; tab.

Officials at Ambrosio Taravella International Airport in the city of Córdoba at that time tested for narcotic drugs, although they kept the content for a more detailed analysis. the passenger being released, the spokespersons said. Then, in a laboratory of expertise on the substance, it was established that there were more than 40 000 doses of lysergic acid of maximum purity in the bottle. The PSA then began to search more accurately for the man who was carrying it and discovered that it had traveled to Argentina with another person accused of being part of an organization dedicated to drug trafficking in the city of Buenos Aires.

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In addition, after carrying out other monitoring and surveillance tasks, the investigations established that this other man accompanying him was going to Spain this month to acquire MDMA (due to the abbreviation of its chemical name, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine). , also known as Ecstasy, and entering Argentina illegally, added the sources.

With this information, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office 1 of Córdoba ordered the deployment of international actions in collaboration with the National Police of Spain, whose agents determined that the detainee was in Madrid, where he had made contact with suppliers of the substance. .

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Therefore, when sending their luggage to the Madrid airport, the Spanish authorities carried out a comprehensive check of the contents of their suitcase, in which they had placed four dark bottles containing 20 liters of MDMA. in liquid form, about 340,000 doses estimated at 150 million pesos, added the sources. The man was arrested at the scene and put at the disposal of the Federal Court 1 of Córdoba, in charge of Ricardo Bustos Fierrowhich will take the corresponding measures to improve their procedural situation.

Moreover, spokesmen added that after the arrest in Madrid, the PSA had raided two houses in the federal capital and arrested a man who, last July, had tried to To enter the LSD from Chile. They also seized a total of twelve marijuana plants, 254 matrices and tablets of MDMA, cocaine, a digital scale, 149,000 pesos and $ 10,610, as well as other items of interest to the cause, said the informants.