Overview
- Guardia Civil detained three men of Indian nationality in Los Alcázares and a judge ordered their imprisonment on public health charges.
- Officers recovered 527 kilograms of dried Papaver somniferum capsules during late-January searches of multiple homes.
- The group diverted poppies from legal pharmaceutical plantations and mailed them to Mallorca, Málaga, Ávila, and the United States.
- The probe began after four packages totaling nearly seven kilograms were intercepted at Alicante-Elche airport and identified as Papaver somniferum.
- Codenamed Operation Guru25, the case brought together several Guardia Civil units, and investigators say the operation remains active.