With a length of nearly 400 kilometers, the border between Algeria and Morocco remains a smuggling vector of al kinds of merchandise.
Without the presence of the GGF, a special body of the national police force in charge of overseeing the borders, the extent of the trafficking would have been even worse to the national economy.
Hundreds [...]

Tags: Algeria, arms, drug, hashish, Morocco, weapon trafficking

The drugs came from Ecuador under the cover of several fruit importing businesses from Murcia.
Drug traffickers have found yet another way to camouflage drugs and trick police controls: to hide it in fruit shipments.
Authorities have seized 228 kg of cocaine hidden among a cargo of bananas in the port of Sagunto, in Valencia, and dismantled [...]

Tags: Cocaine, drug, Ecuador, spain

The Italians have frozen the assets of the London-based online betting site Paradise Bet as part of a huge three-year operation called Domino aimed at demolishing the Parisi gang in southern Italy.
The Italian police arrested 74 people and seized businesses, land, race horses and the London [...]

Tags: drug, italy, Money laundering, Serbia, UK

A makeshift submarine laden with at least ten tonnes of cocaine worth more than £120 million, has been seized by anti-drug agents off the Guatemala’s Pacific coast.
Four alleged drug smugglers, three Colombians and a Mexican, were arrested after it was captured by Guatemalan Navy and US authorities on Wednesday.
The makeshift vessel, complete [...]

Tags: Cocaine, drug, Guatemala, Mexico, United States

The Royal Navy says it has seized its biggest haul of cocaine, estimating its street value at £240m ($380m).
The Portsmouth-based frigate HMS Iron Duke seized more than five-and-a-half tonnes of the drug from a 138ft fishing boat off the coast of Colombia.
The Royal Navy and US Coast Guard jointly intercepted the boat after it was [...]

Tags: Cocaine, drug, UK