They capture a fishing boat with 4 tons of cocaine from Venezuela

Police Spanish, in collaboration with the security forces of Portugal and four other countries, they intervened 4,248 kilograms of cocaine and arrested 20 people, members of an organization that wanted to introduce the drug into Spain through a fishing boat Venezuelan.

As reported by the Police on Tuesday, of those arrested, three of them, detained in VenezuelaThey would be the presumed most responsible for the criminal organization that owns the drug.

The agents discovered that the drug transporters’ fishing boat was sailing to a certain geographical point in the Atlantic, established by the exporting organization to collect a significant quantity of cocaine.

The police of Spain, Colombia, the United States, France and Venezuela They prepared a joint device by which they managed to discover how a fishing boat of those that usually fish in the Caribbean, towing a high-speed boat, was at the point of delivery of the illegal merchandise.

The criminal organization’s way of working was to provide security when carrying out the exchange, since the use of speedboats of this profile are undetectable in those latitudes and offers drug traffickers additional flexibility when avoiding the Policeman.

The operation resulted in a first action on the high seas, in which eight people of Venezuelan nationality were arrested and 177 bundles were seized with 4,248 kilograms of cocaine. Subsequently, nine other people were arrested by the anti-drug services of Venezuela, also on the high seas, and another three in Venezuelan territory, who would be the alleged perpetrators of the organization.

This police action allowed to reveal the method used by the South American criminal organizations to give security to their maritime operations.

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