Five arrests: Submarine with almost 7 tons of cocaine in front of the Azores

More and more so-called semi-divers are used for drug smuggling. They are difficult to discover and in case easy to sink

Drug gangs are also increasingly using submarines to smuggle cocaine from South America to Europe. Now, investigators from Spain and Portugal are able to access the Atlantic.

First 'narcossubmarine' caught. It had 7 tons of cocaine.

The Minister of National Defense, Nuno Melo, today praised the cooperation between police and military entities in Operation Nautilus, considering that this work shows the importance of the Armed Forces also in times of peace. Speaking to journalists at the Ministry of National Defense, Nuno Melo highlighted the “extraordinary work of the Judicial Police, alongside the Portuguese Navy and the Air Force” which “allowed the seizure of a further 6.…

Off the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic, Portuguese and Spanish police units have seized a type of submarine containing almost seven tons of cocaine.

Lisbon - Drug gangs are increasingly using submarines to smuggle cocaine from South America to Europe. Now, investigators from Spain and Portugal are able to access the Atlantic.