Leader in Kinahan drug gang extradited to Ireland from UAE
Sean McGovern, wanted on charges of murder and directing organised crime, flown to Ireland in military aircraft A leader of the notorious Kinahan organised crime...
Category : Drugs trade
Cocaine, corruption and bribes: the German port under siege by Europe’s criminal drug gangs
After seizure in Hamburg of 16 tonnes of high-purity powder, state attorney is accused of being on payroll of gang he was supposed to be...
Drug smugglers targeting Oslo as gateway into Europe
Mayor of Norwegian capital, Anne Lindboe, says drugs worth up to £570m have entered through the port The mayor of Oslo has warned that drug...
Spanish police arrest 10 after discovery of ‘highly sophisticated’ meth lab
Mobile facility found near Barcelona capable of producing 10kg of drug a day, say police, who seized 70kg Spanish police have arrested 10 people and...
Rotterdam mayor calls for end to lax stance on middle-class drug use
Europe has been ‘negligent,’ as an acceptance of cocaine and cannabis leads to corruption, violence, and misery, says Aboutaleb The mayor of a city on...
30 tonnes of cocaine seized in raids against European ‘super cartel’
Arrests made in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Dubai, including one ‘extremely big fish’ A “super-cartel” that controlled one-third of the cocaine trade in...
