Cocaine smuggling ring uses the deserted ship to provide privilege on the high -speed “Narco” police in Spain

Police forces from several countries dismantled an international drug smuggling link that used what the authorities described “Narco boats” high -speed to smuggle large quantities of cocaine from Brazil and Colombia to Spain Canary IslandsThe Spanish police said on Friday.

The episode is suspected of using 11 fast boats to capture drugs from large “mother ships” at different points in the Atlantic Ocean and then bring them to the archipelago located off northwestern Africa, Police said in a statement. The authorities said they also used the wreckage of an abandoned ship as a fuel -refueling platform.

The statement added that “one of the largest criminal organizations dedicated to cocaine traders operating from South America to the Canary Islands” using this method.

The officers arrested 48 people as part of the operation, which was carried out in cooperation with the National Crime Agency in Britain, the US Drug Control Department and the European Police Agency.

The authorities have so far seized nearly 3,800 kilograms of cocaine smuggled by the gang, along with 19 boats and about 100,000 euros ($ 114,000) that belong to the ring. The authorities said that six specific electronic and geographical properties and equipment were seized.

Police forces from Colombia, France, Portugal, Poland and Cape Verde participated in the operation.

Spain is a major gateway to Europe for drug trafficking networks because of its relations with previous colonies in Latin America and its proximity to Morocco, and it is the producer of the higher hemp.

A bust was announced one day after the US Treasury announced that it was Six accused defendants imposed on drugs He claimed to use boats and “NARCO Subs” to traffic cocaine. Four Joyanian and Colombian citizens – Yesson Andres Sanchez Valigo and Manuel Salazar – were accused of trafficking in cocaine tons from South America to the United States, Europe and the Caribbean.