Paraguay authorities reported the interception of a tour bus loaded with 296 kilos of cocaine on its way to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two men were arrested and charged with drug trafficking and other crimes. According to officials, the cocaine would have a value of $3 million on the Brazilian market. Venezuelan…
The UK National Crime Agency has reported two nationals from Turkey were sentenced to 22 and 20 years after being found with 3.2 tonnes of cocaine with estimated street value of £512 million. According to the NCA senior investigating officer investigation for this case involved law enforcement agencies from different countries including UK, France, Turkey, Guyana…
A Bulgarian woman has been detained at the Athens International Airport when she was trying to smuggle over 2.5 kilograms of cocaine into Greece. Allegedly, the woman arrived from Rio de Janeiro via Zurich and was a member of a drug-trafficking group dedicated to smuggling cocaine from Latin America to Europe. BBC informed that security forces…
It has been reported that drug dealers in Rio have started peddling Olympic-branded cocaine. According to Rio authorities, drug crime in the city has become a serious matter where homicides were up 15 percent in the first four months of 2016 in comparison to the same period last year. Spanish Guardia Civil officers have identified…
