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Costa Blanca Police At Alicante Elche Airport Seize Cocaine Filled Car Engine Worth 891 000 On The Open Market

Spanish police at Costa Blanca´s Alicante-Elche airport discover car engine with an extra-special ingredient

Alex Trelinski - 10 Jul, 2020 @ 15:34

COCAINE with a street value of €891,000 was discovered hidden in a car engine that had been sent from Peru to Alicante-Elche airport on...

Crime & Law

WATCH: ‘Superhero’ promises to drive tobacco smugglers out of town in southern Spain

Tim McNulty - 29 Mar, 2019 @ 11:54

In the footage a man, disguised as a Power Ranger, addresses the camera and warns smugglers their trade will soon come to an end

Andalucia

Teamwork triumph for Gibraltar police and Guardia Civil

Tom Powell - 13 Jun, 2014 @ 14:25

After months of hostility, the two forces work together to capture drug smugglers

Gibraltar

Tug of war between Gibraltar and Spain over smuggler’s boat

Giles Brown - 28 Apr, 2014 @ 19:20

Interception of smugglers boat in Gibraltar waters leads to increase in tensions

Gibraltar

Smoking out the Spanish smugglers

Eloise Horsfield - 2 Jun, 2012 @ 09:16

Six vehicles – and a canoe – seized in cigarette smuggling crackdown

Andalucia

Cigarette smuggling crackdown in Spain

Eloise Horsfield - 18 Dec, 2011 @ 09:13

Expats are being offered cash rewards for information about suspected tobacco smugglers

Almeria

Spanish police make massive drugs haul off Almeria

Anatoly Kurmanaev - 5 Jan, 2011 @ 16:59

A boat was carrying over 1.5 tons of cannabis

Other News

All aboard the Smugglers’ train!

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 8 Jul, 2010 @ 15:20

Now fully upgraded, this little-known line is home to some of Andalucia’s best-kept green secrets

Other News

Smugglers’ train back on the run

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 26 Apr, 2010 @ 11:00

It was once used by bandits and drug smugglers. Now, after a six-month upgrade, the Algeciras to Ronda line is about to reopen, reawakening memories of its turbulent past, writes Tessa Norman

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Spain orders fully-vaccinated people to quarantine if they have contact with confirmed or even suspected Omicron COVID-19 cases

Alex Trelinski - 1 Dec, 2021 @ 20:15

FEARS about the spread of the newly-discovered Omicron COVID-19 variant has led Spanish health chiefs to toughen-up self-isolation rules for fully-vaccinated people. The Ministry of...

POLICE have smashed the Spanish end of an international people smuggling gang that charged Bangladeshi nationals an average of €12,000 per head to get into Spain. The Policia Nacional have arrested two people in Alicante Province and one in the Madrid area, who was one of the organisation's bosses. They've been charged with homicide and infringing the rights of foreign citizens Police believe the gang netted millions of euros in their people trafficking operation. Besides Spain, members of the crime ring operated in Algeria, Bangladesh, Dubai, Mali, Morocco, and India, Journeys from Bangladesh would take over a year and culminate in a perilous sea crossing in unsuitable crafts from Morocco to Spain. One journey in November 2019 saw nine Bangladeshi and North African nationals die after the boat's engine stopped working and the vessel sank. The police probe has succeeded in dismantling the Spanish and Moroccan legs of the international enterprise. The Madrid leader personally supervised clandestine crossings of the migrants from Algeria into Morocco. He also organised accommodation for them in Fez, Rabat, and Tangier. The dangerous sea crossings cost were valued at €5,000 per person and the man got a commission on each boat fare.

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