It fell an international megaband that sold addictive painkillers on the web and washed millions of people in porteño caves

The virtual pharmacy Goldpharma He offered a wide range of medical products, some very questionable. Also, I had at least a special management of your finances.

After a joint operation between different national and international forces like the city police and the DEA which included 21 raids in the country, Goldpharma fell: it was discovered that he was selling highly addictive drugs related to the opioid crisis to the US market, and then he washed his profits through a second organization based in Argentina which worked with financial wineries, a circuit that started with suppliers in Romania and India and which ended with ten Argentines arrested and three fugitives.

The survey started in July 2017 after the US District Attorney's Office in Wisconsin and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) contacted PROCUNAR -the wing of the prosecutor charged with investigating drug trafficking under the authority of the prosecutor Diego Iglesias- to denounce the tracing in Argentina of the nucleus of a criminal organization that was selling illegally on the Internet via substances controlled by Goldpharma in the United States.

US forces then reported the marketing of different types of pharmaceutical drugs such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, tapentadol, methylphenidate, tramadol, alprazolam, carisoprodol, zolpiden and diazepamTranquillizers and pain relievers governed by the code of this country, that this criminal organization marketed via Romanian and Indian suppliers.

The operating mode: a person in the United States ordered a drug from the Goldpharma website. This sale was coordinated by a call center in Argentina. From there, the Internet portal was controlled and the gears for sending the product from suppliers – in Romania and India – to North America were put into operation. From this transaction, profits were obtained, amounts in millions, which were washed in financial wineries of the city of Buenos Aires.

This is directly related to one of the biggest public health crises in the United States: opioid abuse and dependence on pills. Ninety people died per day in 2017 due to this problem according to figures from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a pandemic that has surpbaded crystal meth addiction.

Organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believe that in this country The total economic burden resulting from prescription opioid abuse only amounts to $ 78,500 million annually.; This includes the costs of medical care, loss of productivity, treatment of addiction and the costs of criminal justice system interventions.

Although the extent of the illegal drug trafficking activity is unknown, it is suspected that the investigated, as well as other accomplices, They operated at least the year 2006 until about March 2018 and moved "millions of pesos" across two, the researchers pointed out Infobae.

The emails revealed that, over a period of one year, Goldpharma's gross revenues were approximately $ 6.7 million, produced from the sale of controlled substances and drugs to customers in the United States.

The two main leaders of the group were captured in Argentina, while three others are still on the run. The two detainees will not be tried in Argentina, but by the grand jury of the Wisconsin District Court on 12 counts. drug import and conspiracy.

Both They are of Argentine nationality: their identities are kept in reserve by the researchers.

Washing in the caves of Buenos Aires

Investigative activity in our country uncovered a second criminal group operating in two caves in downtown Buenos Aires and distributing illicit money real estate construction projects by paying real estate trust fees, acquisition of different cryptocurrencies in bitcoins and provide the necessary means to the members of the organization dedicated to the illicit traffic of painkillers to carry out Cash withdrawals in Argentina.

Thus, they demanded the arrest of the two responsible for this financial ploy and the investigation of five other people, with a raid of 21 raids between the federal capital and the province of Buenos Aires. PROCELAC and the FIU were also part of the case.

They were kidnapped more than two million pesos and 237 thousand dollars, mobile phones, tablets, computers, as well as several high-end vehicles of brands such as Mercedes Benz and BMW, found in the Country Haras del Sol of Pilar.

They have also been found 11,235 euross and 890,000 pesos in checks. The file at the local level is under the responsibility of the economic criminal judge Pablo Yadarola and the prosecutor Gabriela Ruiz Morales. The rThe results of the operation were presented this afternoon by Minister Patricia Bullrich and Deputy Chief of Government of Buenos Aires, Diego SantillI. "This is an important operation.We came to disrupt an organization that has harmed, killed and committed crimes in different parts of the world," Santilli said.

Photos: city police