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European and Ecuadorian Cooperation Leads to 20 Arrests in Major Hit Against Drug Trafficking

The operation, codenamed Operation CANTABRIA, underscores the success of strong cooperation between European and Ecuadorian law enforcement agencies,… Read more →

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In four years alone, investigators confiscated 43 tons of cocaine in major operations. Now, police arrested the people in charge in Ecuador.

·Frankfurt, Germany
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The detainees "had their companies, their companies, big businessmen of course, that was used as a facade not only to wash the money but used to send drugs to European countries," said Interior Minister John Reimberg, in a radio interview. Authorities arrested 21 Ecuadorians, including two police officers, and seized drugs worth $1,765 million. Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands were the main destinations of the drug that came out of E…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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The Ecuadorian police, together with the national police forces of Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, under the coordination of Europol, carried out 23 raids. The post Dismantling of a ring of companies that trafficked cocaine to Europe – Investigations also in EU countries appeared first on in.gr.

·Greece
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The drugs were hidden in loads of fruit and other products – Among those arrested were two police officers and a financier of the Los Lobos gang

·Marousi, Greece
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Ecuador has arrested in a large police operation those responsible for the shipment of a container of 13 tons of cocaine that led to the alleged capo Ignacio Toran and the police chief of Madrid arrested with millions of euros sandwiches in his house. This shipment, intercepted in Algeciras (Cadiz), became the largest stash in the history of Spain until October 2024, then surpassed by the 30 tons intercepted on the high seas by the Civil Guard l…

·Madrid, Spain
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Operation Gran Fénix-Cantabria included 23 raids, and an alleged financier of alias Pipo was arrested in a house in Plaza Lagos.

·Guayaquil, Ecuador
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El Universo broke the news in Guayaquil, Ecuador on Thursday, October 8, 2026.
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