Spain busts cocaine ring that used offshore floating bases | ABS-CBN News

Описание: Spanish police have broken up a vast cocaine trafficking operation that used speed boats to bring the drug onshore from floating bases in the Atlantic, seizing 10 metric tons of the drug and arresting 105 suspects.

Police said on Monday (January 26) that a year-long investigation in cooperation with law enforcement in countries including Cape Verde, Colombia, France, Portugal and the U.S. showed the group brought an estimated 57 tons of cocaine to Europe in the period.

Speed boats -- operating at night from rivers in southern Spain, the northwestern Galicia region and the Canary Islands, as well as from Portugal and Morocco -- navigated far into the Atlantic to offload drugs from transport and storage ships, "They managed to create genuine aquatic platforms where pilots would remain at sea for over a month at a time, carrying out several successive operations," while other members used sophisticated equipment to monitor security agencies' communications and movements, a police statement said.

Officers seized 30 boats, 70 vehicles and numerous pieces of high-tech communications and surveillance equipment.

(Production: Elena Rodriguez, Andrey Khalip)

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