Since the early hours of the morning, the Civil Guard has been conducting a major operation against international cocaine trafficking in several provinces, including Barcelona, in which around twenty detainees with ties to the well-known Farruku clan, made up of Albanian citizens, are expected to be detained. Sources close to the operation have indicated that more than 250 Civil Guard officers are operating in Madrid, Malaga, Toledo, Barcelona and Cádiz, where in addition to making arrests, summonses are being distributed to others.
The investigation began with the seizure of two tons of cocaine in the port of Algeciras. The Farruku clan has been known in Spain since 2008 for being associated with the criminal organization involving house thefts, cocaine trafficking and various drug trafficking-related crimes.
Malaga lawyer Juan Fernández is one of the twenty people arrested this Wednesday. Sources from the law firm have confirmed to EFE that the agents searched the firm despite being confident that “everything will turn out fine” for them. Juan Fernández is a lawyer with more than 25 years of experience and is a member of the European Council of Lawyers and the International Network of Lawyers. He specializes in criminal law and investments and could be investigated for money laundering, according to investigative sources.
The alleged leader of the Farruku clan, Kreshnik Farruku, was arrested in Madrid in 2019. He had had a European arrest warrant issued by Italy since 2018 and the Spanish police had been investigating him for his possible relationship with the group of Albanians who raided the home of businessman José Luis Moreno in 2007 and for the shooting of a man in El Molar ( Madrid) in 2008.
Investigators also suspect Farruku was behind the 2010 death of his boss on Calle Telémaco in Madrid, after which he took charge of the organisation, although he was arrested shortly afterwards in Barcelona with 20 kilos of cocaine, which he was taking to Italy wanted car for which he went to jail.
Two years later, he escaped using a prison leave and fled Spain, where four years ago he was arrested again in a hotel in Madrid along with his brother Erniu, who had taken over as leader of the clan.
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