Sourcing cocaine from the Mexicans seems like a North American thing. Even the majority of the non-Italian European OC groups that are deep in the cocaine trade like the Albanians, Irish, British, Dutch, Serbs/Montenegrins, Moroccans, Turks...have a direct link to Colombian suppliers.

Some who don't directly source from the Colombians have links to the Dominicans since Dominican networks are important middlemen between Colombian groups and others. Dennis G. (a Dutch business associate of Taghi) for instance was arrested in the Dominican Republic. Several other Dutch drug trafficking networks use their links to Suriname or Curaçao since networks in those regions are also notable middlemen for the Dutch market.

In general though, there's a prevalence of direct Colombian links to source from. One Albanian clan from instance set up shop in Ecuador and a Serbian group set up shop in Peru. In both cases the groups did business with affiliates of the Urabeños/Clan del Golfo, arguably the biggest Colombian drug trafficking organization at the moment.
In Antwerp, for some time the Y. group (members of a large Turkish-Assyrian clan) and the Eleftherios P. group (a well known Greek cocaine trafficker based in Antwerp) brought in so many tons from Colombia, the Antwerp authorities suggested an intense cooperation with Colombian authorities.

One of the few cases of the cocaine trade in Europe where a high level criminal organization from Europe was sourcing from the Mexicans was when a Liverpool-based outfit (the guys from the Speke district) was doing business with the either Sinaloa or the Zetas. Though cases like that are few and far between compared to how many times a Colombian link is detected.

Cross-posting -- see Ciment's post at http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1098559#Post1098559, as well as his other posts about Angelo Pandeli.

Marty Robert Calls Hells Angels Summit In Cancun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryyfh1EVkao

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...s-exporte-ses-surplus-vers-l-oceanie.php

Local drug market saturated Quebec organized crime exports its surpluses to Oceania

Several Australian media reported the arrest in Dubai of Angelo Pandeli, a member of a Sydney Hells Angels section. Pandeli had been in exile in Dubai for years. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian official reports link him to a cartel that imports $1.5 billion worth of drugs annually. For years, he has been one of the most wanted men by the Australian justice system.

Pandeli was expelled from Dubai on Thursday and sent back to Australia.

Melbourne's Herald Sun and News Corp newspapers report that just before his arrest, Pandeli had traveled to Mexico, where he reportedly met Martin Robert, one of the leaders of the Montreal Hells Angels.

The media said the two men discussed drug import cooperation and cited police sources that links to the Canadian Hells Angels could help Australian bikers continue their drug imports despite Pandeli's arrest.

However, our sources confirm that a Hells meeting is planned in the Cancún area in September for the anniversary of the local Hells Angels Nomads section and that Martin Robert could participate.

A world leader

A member of the Hells Angels section of Montreal, Martin Robert is considered by the police to be one of the most influential bikers in Quebec.

Robert was – or still is – a member of the Côte d'Azur section in France and is a Hells Angels World, i.e. he represents Canada within this international criminal organization and participates in meetings with representatives of other countries.

According to the police, Martin Robert is at the head of a group within the Hells Angels of Montreal that allegedly tried to seize the sports betting of the Montreal mafia in 2022.

According to our information, the conflict over the control of sports betting between these two factions is still latent, and Martin Robert has been spending a lot of time outside Quebec since then.

I bet Robert has spent a lot of time out of Montreal after his bid to get "the book" failed so far. If all of that is true about him wanting it then he's definitely a marked man in Montreal now. No way the Sicilian's let it go after all this infighting over it.