Eight tonnes of cocaine seized and 40 people arrested after four-year investigation led by Spain’s Guardia Civil
Europol, Spain’s Guardia Civil, Croatia’s drug control unit and Brazilian police collaborated in order to bust the Balkan drug cartel.Europol, Spain’s Guardia Civil, Croatia’s drug control unit and Brazilian police collaborated in order to bust the Balkan drug cartel.
The involvement of the Guardia Civil began in September 2020 when officers from the force intercepted a Croatian-flagged sailing boat bound for the Canary Islands that was carrying one tonne of cocaine. They soon established that the boat had taken on the drug shipment from a freighter off the Gulf of Guinea. Encrypted communications obtained from the devices of the three people arrested on the sailing boat were then shared with Europol, which was already investigating the cartel.
When Europol shared the Spanish intelligence with other partner countries, it emerged that police in Belgium, Germany and Serbia were pursuing the same individual and their associates.Members of a special unit of the Spanish Civil Guard arrested a 40-year-old suspected drug trafficker at his home in Mijas, near Marbella in Spain.
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