A FORMER Barcelona dock worker has been killed execution-style while having a coffee after he had dropped off his son at school.

David Caballero Riera, who also coached a local futsal club was shot in the back of the head outside the Trastevere cafeteria in Montgat around 9am on Friday morning.

Witnesses reported that a man ‘of Latin origin’ pulled up on a motorcycle, fired twice from behind, and then drove away.

The Mossos d’Esquadra erected police controls at various roads and intersections in an effort to catch the killer.

The assassination has not surprised legal sources in Catalunya, who have frequently tried to prosecute Caballero for various narco trafficking offences.

A well-known character at the Port of Barcelona, he had been investigated for his involvement with ‘corrupt mafia’ a number of times.

However, he has always managed to wriggle away from prosecution amid rumours that he was a high-level confidential informant.

Only last December he went to trial for his involvement in a brawl in the stands of a five-a-side football match in 2022 when he was president and coach of the Barceloneta Futsal futsal team.

It has been reported that he stepped away from working in the port directly a few years ago, and instead had been managing a luxury car dealership since 2021.

Catalan police are investigating the motive for the crime, although it suggests a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking.


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Sinaloa cartel ???

it's possible, Sinaloa cartel is increasing heavily its activities across Europe

Are they in the UK?

Mexico's Sinaloa cartel has reportedly teamed up with a Romanian gang to ship drugs to the UK

https://www.businessinsider.com/mexicos-sinaloa-cartel-work-with-romanian-gang-drugs-to-uk-2017-7

Sinaloa cartel has sought to build criminal networks in the EU over last five years. It is known to forge partnerships with existing organizations.

I think that report is connected to an article of 2017, which was discarded not long after. Romanian gangs are rather small players in the European underworld all things considered and they're mostly involved in theft (usually gypsies), ATM skimmings and prostitution. In the drug game - especially the cocaine trade - they're not even close to being on the level of organizations in for instance Italy, Albania/Kosovo, Serbia/Montenegro, the UK, Ireland or the Netherlands.

If I remember correctly there were definite links established between a criminal organization from Liverpool (based in the Speke area) and Sinaloa cartel operatives, but the Speke guys got busted a few years ago.

I agree TKJ we don't read much about the Romanians are they less active or under the radar?

Romanian Mafia gangs in the Americas are different than those in the EU, where in the Americas the Romanian mafia has built a very lucrative pact with the Sinaloa Cartel.

Funny fact

Lazar Edeleanu 1 September 1861, Bucharest – 7 April 1941, Bucharest) was a Romanian chemist of Jewish origin.[1] He is known for being the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine at the University of Berlin and for inventing the modern method of refining crude oil.

14 people have been arrested in Spain last week supposedly linked to the Sinaloa Cartel.

https://www.voxnews.al/english/aktu...kosova-arrestohen-ne-spanje-14-an-i79221

https://www.interior.gob.es/opencms...sesinato-de-un-hombre-en-Cataluna-00001/

Is the shooting in barcelona linked with this albanian guy getting killed?

I bought hash in Spain couple years ago. I got told the Russian mob control the cocaine in the city I was at. I can't remember where I was. I think it was Benidorm, Alicante or Tenerife.

The "Russian mob" in Spain are for the most part Armenians and Georgians. There are actually a lot of British cocaine trafficking networks operating on the Costa Blanca. Earlier this year Brian Charrington got arrested; his network was allegedly one of the biggest narcotics networks in that region.

How pure is the cocaine in Spain? What are they currently selling on the streets? 60% pure?

Depends on who you're buying from. Generally speaking on the streets it's cut to shit. When you get to the more "jetset" settings it's higher purity.

In the Netherlands you can have drugs tested . The DIMS (Drug Information and Monitoring System) coordinates the various test locations in the Netherlands.

In 2022, cocaine samples contained an average of around 74% cocaine. The rest was other substances, usually certain medicines such as levamisole and phenacetin.

Cocaine powder costs between €50 and €70 per gram. This price is very stable. Users get about 15 to 20 lines from one gram. Often, no exact gram is sold, but a quantity of, for example, 0.9 grams.

2 years ago
The Sinaloa cartel, commonly described as the largest and most powerful drug-trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere, has already extended its ties in the Balkans to the European continent, report the media the foreigner, Telegrafi reports.

Intelligence reports from the federal government detailed that Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who is perhaps the top leader of the Sinaloa cartel, recently formed alliances with the Albanian mafia, specifically the Luftar brothers, Arben, Fatos and Ramiz Hysa.

The joint plan of both criminal organizations, separated by more than 10,600 kilometers, is to launder millions of dollars profited from illegal business through real estate and investments in the coastal tourism sector of the Balkan peninsula.


The lack of controls by the Albanian authorities for money laundering would have been the main factor that attracted "Chapo" Guzman's friend to that Eastern European country.

The four brothers from Albania with whom "El Mayo" would have agreed to manage a network of casinos and businesses in Sonora, Baja California and Quintana Roo, through which they launder millions of euros from organized crime, El Universal's report detailed.

Mexican authorities revealed that the Sinaloa Cartel is currently in the middle of a significant financial deal with Albanian mobsters. It would be several million dollar transfers through front companies based in the European country.

Between 2018 and 2020, of those arrested for cocaine trafficking in Europe, 266 had Albanian citizenship, followed by Brazilians (257) and Colombians (168). The next European country to appear on the list was the Netherlands, in eighth place, with only 51 citizens detained.

Brazilians? Didnt know they were very active in Europe

I think it means citizens arrested outside their own country, because in Italy alone there are thousands of people arrested for cocaine every year

Far as I know there are no Brazilians operating in Europe as a gang, but plenty of European criminal organizations source cocaine from Brazilian crime groups. Gangs like PCC and CV have been getting active in overseas cocaine shipments. Like the Colombians the Brazilian groups also have begun to operate from other South American countries that don't traditionally have big sophisticated homegrown criminal organizations like Paraguay, Peru or Uruguay. They do send plenty of emissaries to Europe - especially to Portugal and Spain - so I'm guessing that's where the number comes from.

Sacra Corona Unita member Aldo G. was arrested in Brazil in 2021.

He was prosecuted in the Netherlands for involvement in the murder of two Brazilians in 2002. The victims who had been shot dead were found along the A12 motorway near Woerden. According to the Public Prosecution Service, G. was the person who ordered the double liquidation. The Brazilians allegedly supplied G. and an Italian accomplice with 20 kilos of drugs, but they were not paid. G. then allegedly had the two murdered to nip a revenge attack in the bud.

The court sentenced G. to life imprisonment, but in 2008 the court acquitted him of the murders. However, the court did sentence G. to seven years in prison for dealing in hard drugs. G. had already served a long prison sentence in Belgium.

Aldo was in the milieu known as the pig. He speaks also Dutch, Portuguese and English.
At the age of 20, Aldo left for the Netherlands, where he started working as a restaurateur in Amsterdam. He ran a Chinese restaurant, and later opened his own Italian trattoria called Le Delizie, on the Vijzelgracht. If that proved successful, he later opened another one, in Amsterdam-Zuid. He lived with his wife and three children in Amstelveen.