Overview
- Mossos d'Esquadra arrested nine suspects in coordinated November 26 raids across Barcelona‑area towns, identifying seven tied to illicit medication trafficking and two to money laundering.
- Officers seized 2,500 vials of growth hormone, about 40,000 tablets, more than 500 sexual‑enhancement pills, €250,000 in cash, roughly €300,000 in bank funds and about $150,000 in crypto, along with luxury watches.
- The network allegedly imported drugs from Baltic ‘under’ labs disguised as cosmetics, shipped orders by parcel nationally and internationally, and distributed some falsified products labeled as legal Spanish medicines.
- Investigators say the leader used his medical credentials and large social‑media following to recruit clients, prescribed testosterone and growth hormone without proper indication, routed purchases through closed messaging groups and took payments into foreign accounts.
- The court ordered Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and website closures, seven detainees were released pending charges including public‑health and forgery offenses, assets were frozen with hidden patrimony estimated above €1.5 million, Estonian police assisted the probe and the Barcelona medical college opened a preliminary file.