THIS is the second armed police carried out a sequence of raids in opposition to a global drug cartel in southern Spain.
Footage shared by the Guardia Civil reveals armed officers with riot shields and helmets storming plenty of properties throughout Huelva, Sevilla, Granada and Malaga.
The operation is claimed to have dismantled a ‘highly effective worldwide crime gang’, with a complete of 31 individuals arrested throughout Andalucia.
The raids started on December 18, with authorities seizing 278kg of cocaine, 3.8 tonnes of cannabis, 180 hashish vegetation and greater than €500,000 in money.
The Guardia Civil mentioned it additionally recovered varied ‘weapons of battle’, with footage of the haul exhibiting snipers and AK-47s.
The suspects face plenty of costs, together with belonging to a prison organisation, possessing and carrying weapons of battle, cash laundering, smuggling, falsifying paperwork, car theft and extra.
The probe started after the Guardia Civil started trying right into a ‘very lively’ mafia with hyperlinks to Colombia, Panama and Portugal.
The group allegedly targeted on trafficking cocaine and hashish resin from South America and Africa into Europe.
The crime group is claimed to have used delivery containers, sailboats and high-speed vessels to ship the narcotics by sea.
Authorities mentioned in addition they used personal planes and smaller plane to traffick the medicine.
Different objects seized included 5 properties, a jet ski, 10 autos, pc units and cryptocurrency paperwork.
In the meantime, 51 financial institution accounts have been frozen by way of a court docket order.
The investigation was the work of a collaboration involving the USA’s DEA, the UK’s NCA, Portugal’s GNR, France’s OFAST and Europol.
