US EditionSpain Busts Cocaine Trafficking Ring that Used ‘Floating Bases’ at Sea
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The Spanish authorities detonated "the largest network of cocaine traffickers that dominated the Atlantic and the Spanish rivers with the use of 'narcolanchas'". Among the 105 prisoners there are no Portuguese.
Spanish police have broken up a large-scale cocaine trafficking ring that used speedboats to transport the drug ashore from floating bases in the Atlantic, seizing more than ten tons of the drug and arresting 105 suspects.
National Police smash Atlantic drug ring that used Lanzarote as one of its bases of operations
Spain’s National Police force has announced that it has smashed an international drug ring, which used Lanzarote as one of its bases of operations. The two phases of Operation Black Shadow took place last June and November.
The behind-the-scenes details of the 10-ton drug operation off the coast of Spain, which garnered international attention, were revealed on A Haber. In the program "In Pursuit of Truth," Sabah Newspaper News Coordinator Abdurrahman Şimşek and A Haber Reporter Mehmet Karataş, with exclusive information, explained the drug trafficking operation conducted by Çetin Gören's gang using shell companies and "ghost ship" tactics, as well as the network's…
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