They remove in Madrid more than 20 liters of ecstasy that had to be sent to Argentina

The procedure took place in the last hours and was the result of an investigation opened last July by officers of the airport security police (PSA) and the Directorate General of Customs (DGA) of the Federal Administration of Public Revenue. (AFIP) who worked with the Spanish National Police.

According to spokesmen, the two detainees are Argentines, one of whom was arrested in Barajas, while the other was captured in a building in the autonomous city of Buenos Aires.

The investigation began when an Argentinian went from Chile to the province of Córdoba. A bottle of dietary supplements whose characteristics did not correspond to the details of the label was found in customs controls.

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Officials at Ambrosio Taravella International Airport, Cordoba's capital city, then tested negative narcotics, although they kept the content for further analysis, while the passenger was released, the informants said.

Then, from a laboratory survey, it was established that there were more than 40,000 doses of lysergic acid of maximum purity in the bottle. The PSA therefore deepened the research on the man who moved him and discovered that he had gone to Argentina. with another person accused of being part of an organization dedicated to drug trafficking in the federal capital.

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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 enter Argentina illegally.

With this information, the Federal Prosecutor 1 of Córdoba, Enrique Senestrari, 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 the suppliers of substances.

Therefore, when sending their luggage to the Madrid airport, the Spanish authorities carried out an exhaustive check of the contents of their suitcase, in which they had placed four "rumbling" bottles of dark color containing 20 liters of MDMA. A bubble film.

The man was arrested on the spot and put at the disposal of the Federal Court 1 of Córdoba by Ricardo Bustos Fierro, who will take the corresponding measures to advance his procedural situation.

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Moreover, spokesmen added that after arrest in Madrid, the PSA had raided two houses in the federal capital and arrested the man who tried last July. to enter LSD in Cordoba 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.

"The drug detected by Customs in July of this year meant an unprecedented fact due to the amount and type of narcotics," AFIP said in a press release.

And in that sense, he stated that "it's a micropunto LSD, a small red star-shaped drug, each unit containing multiple doses of diethylamide." lysergic acid, a powerful hallucinogen for oral administration ".

According to the AFIP, 1.7 kilograms of this narcotic were seized on this occasion, worth $ 500,000, "which" has become the largest kidnapping of this type of drug in the country ".

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