Overview
- The restaurant cellar at Pepe Vieira’s two‑star Michelin Camiño da Serpe was burgled on March 18, when thieves took 63 bottles of rare wine and about €10,000 from the safe.
- Four searches carried out in Pontevedra and Vigo on May 27–28 recovered practically the entire collection, which investigators value at roughly €48,000–50,000.
- Two former employees, aged 19 and 24, were earlier identified and detained as the alleged material perpetrators after agents found some bottles during initial searches of their homes.
- Investigators say the wines were sold through an intermediary into a resale network whose alleged leader is already in prison for drug trafficking, and two people are now formally under investigation for receptación.
- The operation is directed by a Pontevedra court and remains under secreto de sumario, with detained suspects moved for judicial questioning and the probe continuing for possible wider links to organised crime.