A former Maradona doctor, arrested together with Edwin Congo in the operation against drug trafficking

In the operation against drug trafficking carried out this week in Madrid, the police, in addition to former Real Madrid, Levante and Valladolid footballer Edwin Congo, also arrested a former surgeon from Maradona .

The investigation began around the Colombian doctor Mauricio Vergara, known in his time for having assisted the Argentine soccer player in a weight loss program and arrested in 2002 in his native country for drug trafficking.

Nicknamed “the doctorcito”, Vergara had “a aesthetic clinic in Madrid they used as an operations center, “said a source from the National Police, who led this investigation in which they were detained 18 people in Spain, Colombia, the Netherlands and Bulgaria.

Investigating Vergara's “illicit activities”, the agents discovered that this network exported cocaine from Colombia mixing it, in small quantities not exceeding 100 grams, with the sheets of the merchandise cardboard boxes, the police said in a statement.

During the creation phase of the boxes, their sheets were impregnated with cocaine in such a way that one material was not distinguished from another and, once it arrived in Europe, it was recovered “in its own laboratories through complex chemical processes”.

In January, agents seized a ton of cocaine in Bulgaria hidden in more than 6,600 boxes of a shipment of limes and pias that had landed in Greece from Colombia.

In images provided by the police, one sees how a machine shreds the cardboard boxes and then the mass is pressed into another container, from which the drug that had been mixed in them is extracted.

The operation also detained former Colombian Real Madrid soccer player Edwin Congo, who was released after testifying.

“I am innocent, I have done absolutely nothing that has to do with the sale or manufacture or anything that has to do with cocaine, “Congo assured La Sexta, where she recognized doing business with emeralds with some of the people involved in this network.

The operation, carried out in coordination with the Colombian, Bulgarian and Dutch police, allowed the seizure in the Netherlands “of 1,200 kilos of pressed cardboard and more than 1,000 liters of chemicals necessary for the extraction of cocaine,” the statement said.