"Eat Enjoy" anti-drug operation, 26 arrests
Twenty-six arrests throughout Italy and the Netherlands for the import, transport and sale of cocaine and heroin. An operation of the police against international drug trafficking between Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria and Liguria, as well as in the Netherlands. Searches were underway in Milan, Brescia and Piacenza. In Lucca they are looking for a man of Albanian origins, who is currently on the run. He is the recipient of an order for pre-trial detention in prison. The charges, for various reasons, are association, import, transport and detention for cocaine dispatch purposes.

Biggest Fentanyl bust in OPP history.

https://www.gangsterismout.com/2020/06/opp-make-largest-fentanyl-bust-in.html?m=1

One ship, 17 liquidations, a lot of corruption and mysterious deaths

The Vampire Ship
How the seizure of Europe's largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East

https://newrepublic.com/article/159252/vampire-ship

The Spanish Customs and National Police seized a total of 35,000 kilos of hashish on four sailing boats in one operation. Two sailing boats with hashish sailed under the Dutch flag. Nine Bulgarian and Russian suspects have been arrested in various parts of the Atlantic Ocean. According to Customs, it is the largest hashish catch at sea in the history in Spain.
Police operations took place in five European countries between 24 and 28 September, completing an investigation that took several months. According to the Spanish police, the hash on the four high-end sailing yachts was owned by the same network.

The Moroccan authorities have tightened controls in the port of Tangier Med after the recent discovery of 1,050 kilos of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam. The drugs were marked with a photo of Pablo Escobar and came from a seagoing vessel from Tangier. The batch of coke was hidden in a container loaded with car parts from Brazil.

The news of the seizure of more than a ton of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam was not convenient for security interests in the Moroccan port, because it provides insight into the weak security of the port in Tangier. Moroccan news site tanja24.com reports that the Moroccan authorities have recently increased security to prevent further image damage. For example, the security services of the port of Tangier Med are now rigorously and accurately checking and inspecting all vehicles crossing the port.

Jesus.. 11.5 tonnes of cocaine seized in the Port of Antwerp.

In the port of Rotterdam, more than 1,500 kilos of heroin was intercepted in a joint investigation by the Dutch police and the British National Crime Agency (NCA). According to the Rotterdam Public Prosecution Service, it is the largest heroin interception ever in the Netherlands.

Customs found the drugs in a container filled with Himalayan salt from Pakistan. The investigation was started after information from England. Thus, various suspects came into the picture. In the joint investigation, an address in Etten-Leur in Brabant was subsequently raided on 9 February and five men were arrested.

The lot has a street value of about 45 million euros. The drugs have since been destroyed.

In September 1,200 kilos of heroin were caught in the Netherlands . That shipment was on its way to the United Kingdom. In Felixstowe, the British also picked up more than 1.2 tonnes in February 2020 .

The previous Dutch record was 1.1 tons of heroin that was caught in Limburg in February 2017.

Huge haul. I wonder what drug smuggling organization was behind it all. What ethnicity and group?

Two suspects are 62 and 60 year old men from St. Willebrord. In the hamlet 't Heike (now St .Willebrord ) were whole families since the 18th century involved in crime so it looks like traditional dutch organized crime is involved.

Well, by any other name, THATS a huge, well-organized drug mob to be handling that kind of volume. Dutch huh? Wow!

This volume and sophistication matches (or exceeds) anything that the Sicilians, Mexicans, Colombians, etc., have ever trafficked in.

I'm impressed!

It's too much to handle on their own others have to be involved destination was UK so British-Irish most likely.

In the ports of Hamburg and Antwerp, more than 23,000 kilos of cocaine were intercepted within a week and a half, the Public Prosecution Service reports. Never before has so much cocaine been caught destined for the Netherlands in such a short time. The addressee of the drug transports handler is a 28-year-old man from Vlaardingen. He was arrested by the police on Wednesday morning. German media report that it would be Atif S.

Turkish smuggling gangs are often involved, according to court cases. England is one of the few European countries where a lot of heroin is used and where there are many addicts.

Spain: Police bust major drug distribution network in Madrid

https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...rug-distribution-network-madrid-76448672

If it's this quantity of heroin destined for the Netherlands or the UK, then it's mostly Turkish or Turkish-Kurdish organized crime involved.

The strange thing in this case is the St. Willebrord connection; that's a bastion for traditional Dutch organized crime, not so much Turkish.
Traditional Dutch organized crime doesn't really traffic a lot of heroin far as I know; the Dutch mostly deal in large quantities of synthetic drugs, methamphetamines, cocaine, etc...

Yeah when we talk this amount of heroin in Europe there is always a link with Chinese or the Turkish babas (members of Turkey's underworld). Istanbul has also become a safe haven for fugitive European traffickers Dubai has become more dangerous.

On Wednesday, Customs found more than 4,000 kilos of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam during an inspection. The cocaine was divided into 4,425 packages. The street value of this party is more than 300 million euros, ‘the Public Prosecution Service (OM) reported on Thursday.

The narcotics were hidden in a container from Ecuador that arrived in Antwerp on March 16. The container was intended for a fruit company in Rotterdam.

The HARC team, a partnership of Customs, FIOD, seaport police and the Public Prosecution Service in Rotterdam is investigating the case further. The drugs have since been destroyed.

More than 27 tons of cocaine intercepted in the port of Antwerp in the aftermath of "Operation Sky", worth nearly 1.4 billion euros
Customs has intercepted a total of 27.64 tons of cocaine in the port of Antwerp in recent weeks. The seized drugs can be directly linked to the Sky ECC file, where investigators could crack encrypted phones and read along with drug criminals. The Antwerp public prosecutor's office reports this. The cargoes have a street value of no less than 1.382 billion euros. The record catch is a cargo of almost 11 tons discovered on the night of 2 to 3 April.

I love when they put "street value" in the article. 1500 kilos of H is 45 million euros but 4000 kilos of coke is 300 million?what? That comes out to 75 grand a kilo and that is more then double, triple what they are worth.

In Colombia , the main producer of cocaine , a kilo of coke costs 2000 euros, 2 euros per gram. Once arrived in the Netherlands, that kilo of cocaine is worth 25,000 to 27,000 euros.

NY Drug Bust Nets Cocaine Branded After International Soccer Star Cristiano Ronaldo

https://www.dailypostusa.com/news/u...rnational-soccer-star-cristiano-ronaldo/

Cocaine seizures by the New York’s DEA office have dramatically increased in recent months, according to Donovan.

“Stimulants like cocaine are the vehicle traffickers are using to attract customers,” Donavan said in a statement. “Cocaine seizures by DEA New York have increased over 200% in the first three months of 2021 in comparison to the first quarter of 2020. Through our investigations and recent CDC statistics, we know that local organizations are mixing cocaine with fentanyl which have added to the alarming overdose rates nationwide.”

On Thursday, Belgian customs seized a consignment of more than 5 tons of cocaine in the port of Antwerp.

The drugs were hidden in a container with bananas from Ecuador, Belgian customs reported in a press release on Thursday afternoon. According to the service, the cocaine represents a street value of 250 million euros.

In April, Belgian customs intercepted a total of 27.64 tons of cocaine in the port of Antwerp in collaboration with the police and the judiciary. The parties of drugs could then be linked directly to the cracked chat service Sky ECC, according to the public prosecutor in Antwerp.

127 kilos of Dutch ecstasy among baby milk in Vietnam
June 18, 2021
The police in Vietnam intercepted 127 kilos of ecstasy on Thursday that was en route from the Netherlands and Germany to the Asian country. The drugs were hidden in packages of milk and food. Vietnamese media report that a total of 16 suspects have been arrested.

The suspects used false documents to transport the goods. The drug organization also used false names and addresses to deliver and receive the drugs.

drug line
At the beginning of April, the Vietnamese investigative services received tips about a drug line and the transport of large quantities of drugs from Europe to Vietnam via air traffic. A 30-year-old man from the Vietnamese city of Hai Duong was arrested during the investigation. He already had a substantial criminal record.

At the same time, Hanoi Customs intercepted 36 parcels totaling more than 400 kilos from Amsterdam at Noi Bai airport. Drugs were hidden in 13 packages. The packages had different addresses in Vietnam.

Dutch Customs intercepted a total of 1,159 kilos of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam between 19 June and 22 June. The Public Prosecution Service in Rotterdam estimates the street value of the drugs at almost 87 million euros.
The HARC team, a collaboration of Customs, FIOD, the Seaport Police and the Public Prosecution Service in Rotterdam, is conducting an investigation. The drugs have been destroyed.

In recent days police found 3000 kilos cocaine at a farm near Amsterdam and Belgian police found 5000 kilos in the Antwerp port.

huge grabs. that's big time dealing. it makes many of the guys in the US look like pikers

22 charged, $10M in drugs seized in major bust of alleged GTA-based organized crime groups

https://o.canada.com/news/local-new...alleged-gta-based-organized-crime-groups

It's unbelievable the amount they capture each week.

,,I know guys who import 5000 kilos here every month and export them to England. Some months they earn 100 million euros,” says a well-informed source from the criminal environment.


During a check in the port of Rotterdam, customs intercepted a consignment of 3001 kilos of cocaine on Tuesday night. The street value is more than 225 million euros, the Public Prosecution Service in Rotterdam reports. The drugs were hidden in a container from Ecuador and loaded with barrels of banana puree.

And this is just what the authorities are catching. For these drug organizations to continue trafficking like this, can you imagine how many loads are successfully transported and getting past the nose of police?

BTW: what is the monetary ratio of value of 1 single Euro in comparison to 1 U.S. dollar?