The Civil Guard has dismantled an organisation which specialised in robberies with force in jewellery shops throughout the European Union. Operation KALAX II has concluded for the time being with the arrest of five people – three of them in Lanzarote and one in Barcelona – and another in Constanza (Romania), the result of one of the European arrest warrants issued. They are accused of crimes of theft with force and integration into an international criminal organisation. Some of the effects stolen on the island of Lanzarote and in Romania have been recovered. In December last year, there was a robbery with force in one of the jewellery stores of a well-known business group in Lanzarote by means of the smash and grab method in which a large quantity of watches and high-end pieces were stolen, valued at 540,000 euros. As a result of this robbery, the Civil Guard began an investigation called Kalax I. In June, there was another burglary in a second jewellery store using the same method. On this occasion, the thieves got away with a haul worth 4.7 million euros in various pieces of jewellery, diamantería and high-end watches. Police connected the two incidents with another robbery committed on March 24th in the municipality of Tias (Lanzarote), this time taking jewellery and watches valued at about 40,000 euros. “This criminal organisation, made up of people of Romanian nationality, specialises in the commission of this type of event and was made up of highly trained professionals, who distribute specific tasks for the perpetration of large-scale robberies, preferably in jewellery shops. It has been found that they tend to act throughout the territory of the European Union, not ruling out their relationship with similar events in other countries,” said a police spokesman. During the investigation, the Civil Guard found out that some of the members of the criminal organisation intended to take several flights to leave the island, thus precipitating the arrest of three in Lanzarote and one in Barcelona. Large quantities of the stolen jewellery were found during six raids in Romania. The investigators found that some members of this criminal organisation had already been arrested years ago in other European countries such as Germany and Italy. In this last country they were nicknamed as “La banda del Buco” (the band of the hole), for a robbery that perpetrated in the city of Alessandria (Italy) of the same characteristics as that committed in Lanzarote.
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