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Four people of that nationality ended up in custody. He sent the drug impregnated in clothes to Madrid and London.
The three packages had not reached their destination. And the phone for DHL, the international logistics company, kept ringing. They were the Argentine cell of the Chinese organization based in Buenos Aires that sent cocaine impregnated in clothes to Madrid and London.
“They did not arrive for operational reasons”, was the company’s response. Although the reality was different: the Criminal Organizations Investigations Division of the City Police, commissioned by the Economic Criminal Court 2, was investigating them after a company scanner declared that the packages were “suspicious.” The last one had been delivered to a branch on Cabildo avenue, near Palermo.
The investigation, in charge of the Economic Criminal Court 2, headed by Judge Pablo Yadarola, began last December and ended ten days ago. The balance was six detainees: four Chinese citizens and two Argentines, residents of the Zavaleta villa.
Six arrested, including four of Chinese nationality, for sending parcels with cocaine impregnated in clothing to Europe.
“According to the investigations, the leader of the organization would be in China. Surely in the next few hours an international arrest request will be made for him,” says one of the researchers.
In recent years, drug gangs have been nourished by “services” provided by other groups. There are no longer large organizations that do all the necessary steps for a drug shipment. In this case, there were at least two groups.
One was made up of a couple from Villa Zavaleta. They were in charge of obtaining data from their neighbors’ identity documents. With that information, they filled out the online forms of the logistics company and paid the cost of the shipment via transfer. The last step consisted of the delivery of the packages. They made them themselves, personally. They came by motorcycle.
Six arrested, including four of Chinese nationality, for sending parcels with cocaine impregnated in clothes to Europe.
“Each package of clothing weighed between seven and eight kilos. We believe that they sent at least three kilos of liquid cocaine by parcel,” a detective clarifies. The Argentine neighbor, while being investigated by the international network, was detained for another reason: he went to pick up a package from Misiones. In a box they discovered 20 kilos of marijuana. From that day on, his wife continued with the logistics.
“The Argentinian sold marijuana at retail in the town, did rags at Boca matches in La Bombonera and provided services to the organization. But they lived poorly, without quality of life. Nothing to do with Chinese citizens,” compares another source with access to the research.
The Chinese managed three supermarkets (two from Moreno, one from Floresta) and a bazaar in the Once area. “The head” of the group is a twentysomething, a neighbor of the bazaar, who would be the right hand of the leader, currently in the Asian country.
Six arrested, including four of Chinese nationality, for sending parcels with cocaine impregnated in clothes to Europe.
The other man is 47 years old. He was detained in Argentine federal prisons for more than five years, accused of participating in the kidnapping of a compatriot, owner of a supermarket.
The women would be the ones in charge of impregnating the drug in the clothes. From what Clarín was able to learn, “this service” is charged per gram: the cost is one dollar. It is believed that they would have carried out the task in the warehouse of one of the Moreno supermarkets.
In the raids on this group’s homes, pistols, ammunition, a rifle, two high-end cars, close to 2 million pesos, and the most striking thing: a machine to change the expiration date of products were seized.
Six arrested, including four of Chinese nationality, for sending parcels with cocaine impregnated in clothes to Europe.
The four lived in houses next to their shops. “In luxurious environments,” according to researchers who followed them for six months.
The business, while it worked for them, was profitable. A kilo of cocaine in Buenos Aires is around 5 thousand dollars. In Madrid, on the other hand, it exceeds 27 thousand euros. And in London, where parcels also left, it would amount to 40 thousand.
The profits were sent to China. Although since they found out about the third parcel that did not reach its final destination, they have moved away from the activity. They only made a suspicious movement in the hours before the arrests. Without reaching branches of the logistics company.
Six arrested, including four of Chinese nationality, for sending parcels with cocaine impregnated in clothing to Europe.
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