Since the early hours of this morning, the Civil Guard has been carrying out an important operation against international cocaine trafficking in Madrid and in four other provinces, in which around twenty detainees linked to the well-known Farruku clan, made up of Albanian citizens, are expected.
Sources close to the deployed operation have indicated to EFE that more than 250 Civil Guard agents are acting in Madrid, Malaga, Toledo, Barcelona and Cádiz, where in addition to the arrests, summonses are being handed out as investigated to other people. The investigation began with the seizure of two tons of cocaine in the port of Algeciras.
The Farruku clan, made up of Albanian citizens, has been known in Spain since 2008 for being linked to the criminal organization with home robbery, cocaine trafficking and various crimes related to drug trafficking.
In 2019, its alleged leader, Kreshnik Farruku, who had a European arrest warrant issued by Italy since 2018 and who had been investigated by the Spanish Police for his possible relationship with the group of Albanians who in 2007 assaulted the businessman's house, was arrested in Madrid. José Luis Moreno and for the shooting death of a man in El Molar (Madrid) in 2008. They also suspected that Farruku was behind the death of his boss in 2010 on Telémaco street in Madrid, after which he assumed the command of the organization, although shortly after he was arrested in Barcelona with 20 kilos of cocaine that they intended to take to Italy by car, for which he went to prison.
Two years later, he escaped taking advantage of a prison permit and fled Spain, where he was arrested again four years ago in a Madrid hotel with his brother Erniu, who had assumed leadership of the clan.
