Overview

• Police disclosed seizures of €365,000 in cash, 53 luxury vehicles, a €400,000 boat, gold bars and eight firearms, and arrests spanning port workers, transport executives, truckers, three Balkan cartel members, two linked to Colombian groups and a Guardia Civil agent.
• A Valencia investigating court released 11 of 43 detainees presented this week, while others remain in custody as proceedings advance in the sprawling case.
• Eight undercover officers, wiretaps and vehicle geolocation mapped the network’s methods, including ‘gancho perdido’ container contamination and ‘spidermen’ who scaled stacks to retrieve marked consignments; infiltrators were tasked three times to rescue cocaine.
• Investigators carried out 59 searches across Valencia province and Ibiza and say the network leveraged influence inside the port’s employment system to steer hiring, shifts and access for extractions.
• Separate police actions the same week underscored wider pressure on drug supply lines, with arrests and seizures reported in Xàbia, Madrid, Barcelona–Sants, Genovés, Asturias and A Coruña.