Police intercept submarine crossing Atlantic with 6.5 tonnes of cocaine

More and more so-called semi-divers are used for drug smuggling. They are difficult to discover and in case easy to sink

Drug gangs are also increasingly using submarines to smuggle cocaine from South America to Europe. Now, investigators from Spain and Portugal are able to access the Atlantic.

Police intercept submarine crossing Atlantic with 6.5 tonnes of cocaine

The vessel was crossing the Atlantic from South America and heading for the Iberian Peninsula when it was intercepted.

Narcodiario's investigations revealed already in 2018, a year before the fall of the sinking narcosubmarine in Aldán (Pontevedra), that Colombians had been sending cocaine caches to Galicia in semi-submersible warehouses for more than a decade. The sources were first-hand: Colombian narcos who had crossed the Atlantic, the Central Narcotics Brigade and even the appearance of extra crew members in fishing boats such as San Miguel, intercepted in …

In Spain, the Guardia Civil, in collaboration with the Portuguese police and with support from the United States and the United Kingdom, intercepted a narcosubmarine with more than six tons of cocaine in the Atlantic Ocean. The semisubmersible, who left Brazil for the Iberian Peninsula, was intercepted in collaboration with the Spanish and Portuguese authorities. Authorities stressed that this is the first case in the history of the region where…

The vessel was carrying 6.5 tons of cocaine to Portugal; in addition to the 3 born in Brazil, the crew included 1 Colombian and 1 Spanish