EU, Ecuador Cops Bust Cocaine Ring After Seizing 80 Tons of Drug

LKA investigators from Baden-Württemberg moved out of traffic with colleagues from Spain and Ecuador for several billion euros.

EU, Ecuador Cops Bust Cocaine Ring After Seizing 80 Tons of Drug

Police in Europe and Latin America said they busted an international cocaine trafficking ring after a year-long probe that led to the seizure of more than 73 metric tons (80 US tons) of the drug.

The director of the Association of Banana Exporters of Ecuador, José Antonio Hidalgo, revealed that last year, 44 tons of drugs were added to Belgium in shipments of fruits from the South American country. However, that number was much lower than that of 2023, when the tons had been 121, according to the businessman’s confession to an international television signal. Hidalgo warned that it is "irresponsible" to look only at this exporting sector…

Eight defendants are on trial in Düsseldorf because they are said to have transported hundreds of kilograms of cocaine for the Calabrian ́Ndrangheta. How Otto became ordinary citizens as suspected criminals.

The expanded Security Cabinet and the Attorney General's Office of the Republic (FGR) presented this day an important seizure of drugs carried out in Altamar, as well as the three Ecuadorian citizens detained in the operation. Those captured were identified as Yhonny Perfiliano Mero Mero, 40 years old; Manuel Orlando Cuevas Delgado, 40 years old, and Diego Fabián Velásquez Catagua, 33 years old. According to the authorities, they were intervened…

In an investigation carried out by the prosecutor Lucas Moyano, the security justice enabled a search to be carried out in an apartment of the building located in Moreno and Dorrego. The work of the Justice with the Police dates from almost nine months of follow-up to the case, where all the elements gathered to order searches in search of evidence to initiate the corresponding criminal proceedings. There a person who is now at the disposal of t…