Two leaders of a major criminal organization have been arrested in the Spanish coastal city of Marbella. They are a Dutchman and a Belgian, reports the Spanish police, the Guardia Civil.
They could be arrested partly thanks to searches in the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. Another seven people were arrested, including Dutch and Belgians.
In the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, 3850 kilos of cocaine were seized in four containers that the organization tried to bring in by sea. The criminal organization acquired the drugs in Brazil and hid them among the legal cargo of large commercial containers.
Costa del Sol
The arrests are the result of a joint operation by the Spanish, Dutch and Belgian police, which began in 2020. In May 2020, 556 kilos of cocaine were seized in Brazil, hidden in a legal shipment of soy flour, followed by a discovery in Antwerp in October 2020 of 2300 kilos, hidden in a legal shipment of coffee beans. In the same month, the police intercepted two other shipments of drugs from the same drug gang, weighing 586 and 409 kilos respectively, this time in Rotterdam.
The smuggled drugs were intended for two Dutch companies and a Belgian company. The police were able to establish that the organizers of the transports in question were located on the Spanish Costa del Sol. The agents continued the investigation and traced the two leaders of the drug gang to their luxury villas in Marbella.
During the searches of those homes, expensive cars and digital data carriers were seized in addition to 2,800 kilos of cocaine.
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