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The Civil Guard knew they couldn't beat the clans at sea, so they beat them on land. Using wiretaps and a paid informant inside the Charlines organization, agents learned the critical detail: the clans were moving away from heroin to cocaine, and they had bought a state-of-the-art freezer trawler.

However, a cloud of mystery hangs over Operación Dragón to this day: **Where is the rest Operacion Dragon

Occurring in April 2013 in Caracas, Venezuela, Operación Dragón was not merely a bank robbery; it was a sophisticated, paramilitary-style extraction of wealth that captivated a nation. It involved months of surveillance, the use of illegal tunnels, the seizure of millions in cash and goods, and a frantic manhunt that ended in a tragedy of errors. This is the full story of the heist that became a legend. The Civil Guard knew they couldn't beat the

The vault was considered impenetrable. It was guarded 24/7, equipped with state-of-the-art security systems, and located within one of the most important financial institutions in the country. But as Operación Dragón would prove, no security is foolproof against the combination of inside knowledge and desperate determination. It involved months of surveillance, the use of

Following the raid in El Marqués, the CICPC declared a significant portion of the case closed. Several other suspects were arrested in the following months, including the alleged mastermind, a man with a history of engineering and construction, and a police officer who provided inside information.

On a foggy November morning in 2005, a commercial fishing trawler named Punta Candieira slipped into the port of Vigo, Spain. To the dockworkers, it was just another vessel returning from a long, fruitless haul in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The crew looked exhausted; the nets were clean. But the Spanish Civil Guard had been waiting for this ship for six months.