Law enforcement dealt a heavy blow to international drug trafficking: a rubber boat carrying over 2.6 tons of cocaine was intercepted in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The seizure came at the end of a complex operation coordinated by the Brescia District Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office, which saw the Guardia di Finanza collaborate with Spanish and Portuguese authorities.
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A business worth 500 million
The cargo on the rubber boat, which has an estimated value of 78 million euros on the wholesale market, would have generated an illicit turnover of about 500 million if it had reached its destination and undergone subsequent cutting operations for retail distribution.
The raid led to the arrest of the four people on board the vessel. They are two Spanish citizens, one citizen of Gibraltar, and one Albanian citizen residing in Mantua and domiciled in the province of Brescia.
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The operation
The rubber boat was stopped off the coast of Lisbon by the Portuguese Policia Maritima. The maxi-raid was made possible thanks to international police cooperation with Spanish and Portuguese counterparts, with the support of the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre – Narcotics in Lisbon and the Central Directorate for Anti-Drug Services.
To locate and intercept the rubber boat, it was necessary to deploy Gdf aerial vehicles equipped with state-of-the-art maritime surveillance technologies, redeployed on the Iberian Peninsula as part of the modules for controlling the external borders of the European Union.
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