Vessel boarded south of the Canaries with 6,044 kg of hashish; five arrested
Customs Surveillance and the National Police boarded a vessel 95 miles south of the Canary Islands carrying 6,044 kg of hashish in 169 bales, dismantling a Dutch-linked network based in Alicante. Five people were arrested and raids followed in Alicante, Murcia, Las Palmas and Madrid.
🇪🇸 Atlantic waters 95 miles south of the Canary Islands · Spain
The Customs Surveillance patrol boat Condor boarded a vessel 95 miles south of the Canary Islands after months of monitoring, finding 6,044 kilos of hashish divided into 169 bales and arresting the two crew on board.[1]The boarding capped an investigation opened in 2020, when a sailing boat moored on Lanzarote raised suspicions and Dutch police pointed to a criminal organisation of Dutch origin linked to it.[1]
Police say the Netherlands-based organisation used a town in Alicante as its base, with a trafficker running logistics to move large drug quantities between European countries under strict security.[1]Six raids across Alicante, Murcia, Las Palmas and Madrid seized more than 35,000 euros in cash, two boats, a vehicle, phones and vessel documents, and a Murcia warehouse search dismantled an illicit synthetic-drug tablet laboratory.[1]
Five people were arrested in total, including the leader of an international drug-trafficking and money-laundering network who had been on the run from the German authorities.[1]The operation drew on Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch and French police cooperation and the Lisbon-based Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre.[1]
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