Overview
- Spanish police intercepted 1,703 kilograms of cocaine linked to the Balkan cartel between the Port of Valencia and a warehouse in Vallada, arresting three suspects after tracking a container from Ecuador packed with canned tuna.
- Investigators recovered 1,013 kilograms inside the port and 690 kilograms at the Vallada site where a rented van arrived under surveillance, using the gancho perdido method to extract the load, with UDYCO, Guardia Civil and Customs involved.
- The National Police separately dismantled an alliance of Colombian, Mexican and Spanish traffickers that hid more than 1,200 kilograms of cocaine and 368 kilograms of methamphetamine inside heavy machinery, making at least 12 arrests and detaining a Camorra liaison.
- Agents uncovered a route masking Ecuadorian shipments with a stop in Turkey before Barcelona, seizing 89 kilograms of cocaine and arresting three people in Madrid after searches in Arganda del Rey and Rivas Vaciamadrid.
- In parallel actions, Peruvian authorities in Tacna seized 111.212 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a Toyota Hilux with VRAEM dolphin logos and detained three suspects, while a prosecutor in Córdoba ordered preventive detention for 10 people accused of drone deliveries into Bouwer prison following 14 raids and extensive seizures.