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 Daily news from the Canaries and the islands' biggest English language newspaper on-line Guardia Civil/SOCA British drug ring in Ibiza smashed Up to 25 people, many of them British, were arrested recently in Ibiza as part of Operation Arrow (Operación Flecha in Spanish), a joint operation between the Guardia Civil and the UK’s SOCA (Serious and Organised Crime Agency).  The Guardia Civil have arrested 24 people (14 men and 11 women), 20 of them of British nationals, two Irish nationals, one Czech, one Slovak and one Spaniard who belong to the most active organisation on the island involved in the distribution of ecstasy tablets and other drugs near night clubs and other leisure areas. According to the Guardia Civil, the investigation began last September following Operation Trafalgar, when they dismantled a British organisation involved in drug trafficking on Ibiza. Following analysis of some seized documents and information obtained as a result of the operation, SOCA were contacted and worked together with the Spanish forces to identify the criminal organisation operating in Ibiza, directed from the UK. Earlier in the summer, the people who are now under arrest were detected and several surveillance measures were put in place. It was suspected that they were trying to build the necessary infrastructure for drug distribution in Ibiza during the summer months. The investigation confirmed that a drug trafficking organisation based in the UK had established a two-branch network in Ibiza. One of the branches was in charge of establishing a network on the island and the other of physical distribution of the drugs. The branches were led from the UK by a group supplying the drugs. Members of the drug ring regularly visited the islands to supervise and collect the proceeds. The drugs were brought onto the island using various methods including hiding them in cars from the UK and in the luggage of Britons arriving at Ibiza airport. On 8 August, a young Briton was stopped attempting to carry three kilos of cocaine through the airport. Several properties were rented on Ibiza, including luxury villas for the ringleaders and flats and apartments in tourist resorts for the dealers. The dealers would keep various quantities of drugs for daily distribution and the bulk of the drugs in secure houses where they did not live. The ring used young 'public relations' people in nightclubs to distribute the drugs and ensured similar prices were charged at each point of sale, depending on the time and place.
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