Cocaine smuggling ring used abandoned shipwreck to refuel at high speed
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The police forces from several countries have dismantled an international drug trafficking ring that used what the authorities called “high speed ships” to smuggle large amounts of cocaine from Brazil and Colombia to Spain. Canary IslandsThe Spanish police said Friday.
It is suspected that the ring uses 11 rapid worms to collect more large “mother” drugs in different parts of the Atlantic and then take them to the archipelago located in northwest Africa, police said in a statement. Supposedly they also used an abandoned shipwreck as a fuel refueling platform for fast boats, authorities said.
It is believed to be “one of the largest criminal organizations dedicated to cocaine traffic operating from South America to the Canary Islands” using this method, the statement added.
The officers arrested 48 people as part of the operation, which was carried out in cooperation with the National Crime Agency of Great Britain, the United States Drug Control Administration and the Paneuropea Europol Police Agency.
The authorities have seized this year almost 3,800 kilos of cocaine that the gang was smuggled, along with 19 boats and around 100,000 euros ($ 114,000) that belonged to the ring. Electronic and geolocation equipment and equipment were also seized, authorities said.
The police forces of Colombia, France, Portugal, Poland and Cabo Verde also participated in the operation.
Spain is a great entrance door to Europe for drug trafficking networks due to its ties with the old colonies in Latin America and its proximity to Morocco, a main producer of cannabis.
The bust was announced one day after the United States Treasury announced that there were Six drug traffickers accused Supposedly wearing ships and “subs” for cocaine traffic. Four Guyanese and two Colombian citizens, Yeison Andrés Sánchez Vallejo and Manuel Salazar, were allegedly trafficked with tons of cocaine from South America to the United States, Europe and the Caribbean.
- Drug traffic
- Spain
- Cocaine