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The court Nº3 Dénia dismantles an international cocaine trafficking in sailboats

May 10 from 2017 - 08: 41

Seven people have been arrested with 403 kilos of cocaine valued at 14.105.000 € in an operation coordinated by the Court 3 Number of Dénia in which achieved the dismantling of a dangerous international criminal organization dedicated to the illegal importation of large quantities of cocaine to Europe and from South America. They have also seized a boat, computers and numerous documents.

The operation began when he was suspected of several that would have been a sailing ship moored in Spanish ports, particularly in Denia (Alicante), Ibiza (Balearic Islands) and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands) boats. Due to the irregularities in their documentation, history of their crews and anomalies in their records, they may be being used for illicit and more specifically for transporting cocaine from South America activities.

This is the Moloko boats One, feet bare Second and Blue Bird, sailboats who had left the Iberian Peninsula, addressing all made the Caribbean Sea area, common area load of cocaine heading towards Europe.

The drug, from the islands of Grenada, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago, was stored in the boats, which remained in place for several days, waiting for their cargo, detecting crews changed and even was change the flag of the ship, all with the aim of hindering a possible control by the Forces of state Security.

After several contacts with national and international organizations, information on the movements of ships, their scales in Caribbean ports and their trajectories and possible places of loading of the goods was achieved, proving that they all made brief stops in an established area several nautical miles off the coast of Venezuela.

With all this information was verified that the vessel Moloko One returned to Spain to dock at the port of Cadiz, where he proceeded to register the vessel. Inside several bales burlap containing a gross total 403 kg of cocaine they were found, and four crew stopped: two Spanish national, an Italian and a Slovak.

Last September investigations moved to the port of Valencia, where he stopped to contact the organization on the ground. This is a man of Spanish nationality in whose home they found mobile devices, computers and documents related to the investigations.

The detainees were made available to the competent judicial authority, which ordered his immediate imprisonment.

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