The National Police has dismantled two interconnected criminal organizations responsible for the arrival of five boats to Lanzarote and one to Fuerteventura, with a total of 204 immigrants. Both were dedicated to trafficking people from the Moroccan coast to the Canary Islands.
The criminal network charged each migrant an average of 3,000 euros, so it is estimated that the organizations obtained a profit of about 612,000 euros. Initially, they requested a payment of 4,000 euros and if they did not have enough migrants for the boat to be full, they lowered the price to 2,500 euros.
After intervening numerous information storage devices, as well as documentation related to economic transactions, the agents were able to determine the modus operandi of the organizations and the roles played by their members, who were the leaders, the routes used, points of departure and amounts charged to migrants for taking them by boat to Spain.
Finally, through a device of up to 100 police officers, eight people involved in the case were arrested, four in Lanzarote (Las Palmas), two in Lorquí (Murcia), one in Sotogrande (Cádiz) and one in Vizcaya, all of them for crimes against the rights of foreign citizens, membership of a criminal organization and document forgery. For the moment, three remain in provisional prison.
