Mallorca Crime: Palma pub brawl
Police say the fight involved knives, sticks and bottles.
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Police say the fight involved knives, sticks and bottles.
'Operación Pólvora' ( Operation Gunpowder) was launched after police became aware of a criminal organisation led by a Cuban living in Spain. He was diverting large amounts of money. This was used to buy properties and vehicles. Two companies in Mallorca are also implicated in the money laundering, as they were drawing up false invoices; the illicit money was supposedly for construction work. The police estimate that the money that was laundered amounts to at least one million euros. Raids and searches have led to the seizure of some 400,000 euros cash, more than three kilos of cocaine, si...
jailed for more than 48 years and ordered to pay fines totalling 115,000 euros for allegedly trafficking anabolic steroids and selling them in gyms in Mallorca. 17 people were arrested during Operation Vitra in July 2017, including several gym officials and personal trainers. The leader of the gang, who managed a Sports Centre in the Es Raiguer region of Mallorca, allegedly received parcels on a regular basis, from an individual based in Portugal. The defendant and an employee allegedly ordered and distributed all types of anabolic steroids, drugs and banned substances. The transactions a...