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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - This undated handout picture released by Spain’s Guardia Civil on August 11, 2025 shows the interior of a villa in Pedreguer, eastern Spain, with several mattresses laid out on the floor, where a group allegedly offered ‘spiritual retreats’ involving hallucinogenic drugs. Guardia Civil handout pic via AFP
MADRID, Aug 12 — Spanish police said Monday that they had dismantled a group accused of running a “spiritual retreat” that offered hallucinogenic drugs to clients from around the world.
The gang is suspected of operating from a villa in the south-eastern town of Pedreguer, charging over €1,000 (RM4,920) for multi-day stays that included consumption of ayahuasca, San Pedro cactus and a frog venom known as Kambo.
“The retreats were held in groups of up to twenty participants, who were attended to by six employees of the organisation during the ‘astral journeys’,” the Guardia Civil police force said in a statement.
A photo released by the force showed a large room with several mattresses on the floor, along with water bottles and tissue boxes and a guitar leaned against a wall.
Police say the group held several retreats a week without the means to respond to intoxications, and generated hundreds of thousands of euros in undeclared income last year.
It promoted the retreats online with promises of a “mystical” experience and health benefits that drew clients “from around the world, the majority from Europe”.
Police arrested two men and a woman suspected of leading the group and placed five other people under investigation for allegedly acting as “spiritual guides” at the retreats.
They face charges of drug trafficking, money laundering and criminal association.
Officers seized 11 litres of ayahuasca, 117 San Pedro cactus plants and several bottles of Kambo, an oozy substance harvested from the skin secretions of the Amazonian giant monkey tree frog.
Police said the substances “can have unpredictable, dangerous effects”. — AFP
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