Spanish police announced on Tuesday April 28 the dismantling in Galicia (North-West) of a network that recovered cocaine on the high seas from international traffickers, an operation that resulted in 28 arrests and 4 tonnes of drugs seized .
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The network, "made up of experienced speedboat operators and known traffickers ", served " the largest national and international drug trafficking structures " to " recover cocaine on the high seas, " police said in a statement. communicated.
Police say it is " the largest drug transport organization in Galicia ", a region known for cocaine trafficking.
The investigators, helped by the American anti-drug agency DEA and the British or Colombian law enforcement agencies, were warned of the arrival of a boat carrying the drugs.
Flying the Togolese flag, this vessel, which had been at sea for twenty days, was intercepted twenty nautical miles from the coast of Galicia with four tonnes of cocaine on board.
Its fifteen crew members, mostly from Bangladesh and Nepal, were arrested as were thirteen members of the network on dry land in Galicia after several searches.
Galicia is one of the entry points for drugs in Europe.
