Overview

• The July 25 operation involved 11 searches across Barcelona, Badalona and Sant Andreu de la Barca, resulting in 17 arrests.
• Police seized more than 1,000 stolen smartphones, 74 computers, 32 tablets and €43,000 in cash during the raids.
• Investigators traced two trafficking routes, sending unlocked phones by road and ferry to Morocco and shipping locked devices by parcel service to China.
• The network used phishing scams to defraud victims of stolen phones of over €25,000 before exporting the devices.
• Four detainees remain in provisional detention as the Division of Criminal Investigation continues probing further multirecidivist links under Plan Kanpai.