The manager of the Marín Serrano El Lagar mill, from the Cordoba municipality of Carcabuey, which this Wednesday suffered the theft of between 50,000 and 60,000 liters of extra virgin olive oil, has made an appeal this Thursday to the sector to try to locate the two cisterns in which they have been able to take the substance.
In statements to Canal Sur, collected by Europa Press, the manager, Martín Parra, has warned that “this is a commission or something”, to which he has added that “when a purchase-sale is carried out, the tanks carry their documentation , where the oil comes from, the batch, the traceability, the license plates, who pays and where the oil goes”, so that “the tanks are circulating without papers and someone has to buy it and needs those papers to give it back high”, he stressed.
Meanwhile, he has confessed that “he could never” imagine what happened, which he has described as “from a movie”, with “everything super well prepared and with minimal damage, total perfection, they knew how to load, remove everything, cut off the power and knew where it was the alarm so that they would not go off”, while “they have loaded trucks from different warehouses”, with “the coincidence that it is the best batch I had in the warehouse”, lamented the manager.
In addition, he has highlighted that “they have taken hoses, they have loaded and then they have put the hoses until well”, so that “they did not leave them lying around” so “they are people who know what they were doing”, he remarked, to assert that the losses “for a small company are brutal”, because “at the market price of this type of oil, it is over 500,000 euros”.
Meanwhile, the manager of the oil mill has commented that they have insurance coverage and “now it’s time for the negotiation part, to see if something can be saved out there.”
In this regard, the Civil Guard has opened an investigation to clarify the robbery that has been registered in the early hours of Wednesday, and early in the day the agents of the Benemérita have moved to verify the facts and start the investigations.
The first hypotheses suggest that tanker trucks have been used, since the olive oil was not bottled and packaged. The Armed Institute has opened the corresponding proceedings and is carrying out actions on the ground, while taking various statements to locate and arrest the alleged perpetrators.
For his part, the mayor, Juan Miguel Sánchez, has indicated that “everything indicates that it is a premeditated and well-prepared action, since they have gone directly to the deposits that had oil and had knowledge of extraction and filling procedures cisterns, something that is not so easy”.
In addition, the councilor has pointed out that the lack of a product traceability document, something that according to regulations is required when buying any batch of oil, large or small, “may be one of the factors that facilitates the location of the alleged perpetrators of the theft.
And the president of the Regulatory Council of the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Priego de Córdoba, Rafael Muela, has expressed his “concern” about the theft in the mill covered by the quality mark and has shown his support for the Forces and Bodies of State Security for the resolution of the case, as well as to the oil mill affected all the collaboration of the quality mark.
