Tag: smuggling
Three La Linea youths arrested on drug smuggling charges after sea chase
Three youths from La Linea de la Concepcion and a fourth person from Ceuta have been arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling on Monday.
Man arrested for smuggling millions of euros worth of endangered eels from Spain to East Asia
A MAN has been convicted of smuggling an estimated €62.5 million worth of critically endangered baby eels from Spain to East Asia via the UK.
TOTAL BANKER: Billionaire handed €52.4 million fine after botched attempt at smuggling priceless Picasso painting out of Spain...
Picasso completed Head of a Young Woman in his pre-Cubist phase, with the painting snapped up by Botin in London in 1977
WATCH: Police catch drug smugglers at gun-point in dramatic Costa Calida raid
GUARDIA Civil have dismantled at gun-point a drug smuggling gang in the Mar Menor region of Murcia.
https://youtu.be/Xzv5Q_83yHo
Investigations began in September, when the number of...
Cannabis cops mixed up in Mar Menor marijuana mountain
A PAIR of Spanish policemen are among 26 accused of bringing over two tonnes of drugs onto the Costa Blanca.
All are up before Murcia’s...
WATCH: Gang of child-abducting Costa Almeria drug traffickers get arrested by Spanish police and Europol in joint swoop
A MULTINATIONAL group of drug-smugglers that used children to transport their contraband has been dismantled after the Spanish Policía Nacional, the French Police Nationale...
TO BOLDLY STOW: Six British people arrested with tonne of cocaine on Spanish boat named ‘Bold’
A gang of six UK drugs traffickers have been arrested by Spanish and British police
‘I KILL YOU’: Shouts suspected drug smuggler as he unloads hash on popular tourist beach on Spain’s Costa del...
The ordeal took place in broad daylight in a public spot, with several beach-goers visible in frame only a matter of metres away
16 arrested in southern Spain for building ILLEGAL luxury drug compound with high walls and swimming pools
POLICE have arrested 16 people who illegally built 14 luxury villas with swimming pools in La Linea.
Investigators believe the 11,000 square metre estate in...
Spain makes fresh demands over Gibraltar in Brexit negotiations
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez met with chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier to seek a new Gibraltar chapter in the Brexit agreement this week
Spanish Tax Agency questions Gibraltar’s tobacco imports
THE motive behind Gibraltar’s exhaustive importation of tobacco has been questioned by new figures.
The Rock imported 72 million packs of cigarettes in 2017 despite...
Father of eight-year-old boy smuggled into Spain by suitcase avoids jail
THE father of an eight-year-old boy who was smuggled into Spain from Morocco in a suitcase has escaped a prison sentence.
Ivorian Ali Ouattara was...
Spanish cops bust €1.5 million international car smuggling ring
GUARDIA Civil have busted an international car smuggling ring worth at least €1.5 million.
Supported by the Bulgarian Police, Portuguese Police and Europol, 'Operation Historic'...
Air steward arrested in Spain with €40,000 in cash stolen from Ryanair
The man tried to fly from Gran Canaria to Sevilla with money taken from a company safe
Woman attempts to smuggle teenager in suitcase from Morocco to Ceuta
A Sub-Saharan 19-year-old was discovered tightly curled up in a hard shell suitcase by the Guardia Civil at the border between Morocco and exclave of Ceuta
British cars stolen in Spain used to transport drugs through Europe
British cars stolen in southern Spain used by drug smuggling gang
OPINION: Ship Stephen Jackson back now!
The sooner Jackson is quizzed over Lisa Brown the better
SPECIAL REFUGEE CRISIS REPORT: Desperate journeys
As Europe tackles the growing refugee crisis, Rob Horgan reports on the radical change in mindset to a harrowing human exodus that has been building for years
Drug-smuggling jet skiers evade Gibraltar police and dump £150,000 of cannabis in sea
The men were last seen heading towards Puente Mayorga, in Spain, after a high speed chase
African suitcase boy allowed to stay in Spain
He has been granted temporary permission to stay so he can be reunited with his mother
IRA bomber arrested in Malaga walks free
Donna Maguire - formerly Europe's most dangerous woman - released without charge
More than 1,000 arrested in ‘unprecedented’ Europe-wide organised crime crackdown
Total of 250 arrests in Spain, in 'single largest coordinated assault on organised crime in Europe'
PP under attack for sensationalising tobacco-smuggling figures in the Campo de Gibraltar
Gibraltar blamed for 60% of all seizures in Spain
Stamping out the ‘Class A drugs post’ peril
Injected into silicone breasts and surgically implanted into defenceless puppies – the Class A Drugs ‘delivery service’ is becoming increasingly deadly as traffickers seek horrific new ways to smuggle contraband into Europe, using Spain as their back door. But it’s a ‘smug’s game’, reports Tom Powell
King of Morocco mistaken for drug smuggler
Spanish authorities searching for drug smugglers apologise to the King of Morocco after attempting to board his yacht
Gibraltar Government hits out at ‘sensationalist’ reporting of EU tobacco smuggling report
A Spanish television channel apparently faked tobacco smuggling scenes and portrayed them as real
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EXCLUSIVE: Expat couple vow to leave Spain after beloved dog shot by hunters and police ‘did nothing’
AN expat couple have slammed police inactivity after their dog was shot dead by hunters on an evening stroll.
Jennifer and Victor Gebhardt, 67 and...
