The Department for the Investigation of Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has sent to court approx. 2,300 persons in 2009, in 760 cases, Chief Prosecutor of the Department, Codrut Olaru, on Friday announced.
He presented the body’s 2009 activity report, showing that DIICOT solved more than 7,000 cases, in which [...]
Tags: Cocaine, DIICOT, Drug trafficking, heroin, Romania
The U.S. State Department on Monday released a report criticizing Venezuela for failing to combat Colombian guerilla groups involved in cocaine trafficking operations and claiming to have strong evidence that “some elements” of Venezuela’s security forces “directly assist” the FARC and ELN.
The report said that Venezuela “does not cooperate consistently with the United States and [...]
Tags: Cocaine, Colombia, Drug trafficking, ETA, FARC, Mexico, USA, Venezuela
Montenegrin Parliament Speaker Ranko Krivokapić accused Serbia of trying to “export” the problem of narco-cartels to Montenegro.
“Serbia is the homeland of this kind of crime, and Darko Šarić is a Serbian citizens, and now they want to unload that problem on Montenegro. Montenegro has that problem in one sector and we will solve it,” [...]
Tags: Cocaine, Darko Saric, Drug trafficking, Montenegro, Serbia
When Gardaì and Customs officers staged a major raid on suspected cigarette smugglers in Monaghan last November they found something there weren’t expecting. Instead of the usual large boxes of cigarettes – either fake imports or legitimately produced smokes on which import duties had not been paid – the authorities found evidence of a very [...]
Tags: cigarettes smuggling, Cocaine, Drug trafficking, IRA, ireland
The Guardia Civil and National Police have intercepted 3,284kg of narcotics originating from South America. Cocaine was hidden inside wind mills and shipments of bananas, peppers and sweets.
The harbour of Valencia is the main gateway of cocaine in Europe, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs. In 2009, the Spanish police apprehended 3.284kilos of cocaine [...]
Tags: Cocaine, Drug trafficking, Europe, South America, spain, Valencia
A cocaine trafficking route between Spain, France and Switzerland was yesterday dismantled at the motorway toll of Viry (nearby Geneva).
A group of ten people were stopped by 30 policemen of the investigation section of Chambéry and of the Haute-Savoie, suspected of belonging to a network of international trafficking of narcotics. The drug, contained inside egg-shaped [...]
Tags: Cocaine, Drug trafficking, Haute Savoie, spain, Switzerland
Officials claimed customs cops had made the country’s biggest cocaine haul ever.
Lower Austrian public security director Franz Prucher said customs police had seized 206 kilos of cocaine worth 40 million Euros three weeks ago after uncovering drugs in seven sports bags in the freight section of Vienna International Airport (VIA).
Werner Schweighofer, from the criminal police [...]
Tags: Austria, Cocaine, Drug trafficking, Peru, South America
The UNODC Container Control Programme continues to show positive results as two drug seizures were reported in Panama, one of the latest ports to join the programme.
In the first case, a container destined for New Jersey, United States, purportedly carrying coffee was found, on 3 February, to be carrying 24 kg of cocaine and 2 [...]
Tags: Cocaine, Drug trafficking, heroin, Panama, spain, United States, UNODC
Podgorica - Montenegrin police arrested today in Pljevlja Goran Sokovic (38) declared for international search by Serbia on suspicion that he participated in the smuggling of over 2 tons of cocaine from South America into Europe, Montenegrin electronic edition pcnen.com announced, referring to the BETA.
In late January Serbia declared Darko Saric [...]
Tags: Cocaine, Darko Saric, Drug trafficking, Goran Sokovic, Montenegro, Serbia
The Deputy Head of the Unit for Combating Organized Crime (GDBOP), Kalin Mihov, has said that the big drug cartels in Latin America often use Bulgarians to smuggle cocaine.
Mihov, speaking after Bulgarians Zlatin Rumenov Raynov and his brother Kaloyan were arrested on Saturday in the Dominican Republic for trafficking 1.3 tons of liquid cocaine, said [...]
Tags: Bulgaria, Cocaine, Dominican Republic, Drug trafficking, Germany, organized crime, spain
