Internatiopnal drug ring imported drugs through Algeciras port

Heroin haul

ALGECIRAS (Agencies) The Guardia Civil in Algeciras took part recently in an internation anti-drug operation that involved police in Romania, Ecuador, Italy and even the DEA in the US. The ring brought in cocaine and heroin through Algeciras port from such distant places as Ecuador and Turkey. The drugs would then find their way north, principally to Romania, then on to other parts of the EU, which accounts for the arrests of five people in Romania. After much investigation, Operation Karpatos discovered that they maintained contacts with Colombian drug lords, as well as others from Ecuador and Turkey, to which last cocaine was delivered via Italy, in exchange for heroin, which travelled by lorry through Hungary and France, among other countries.>On one of the many times local Romanian contacts were being watched, it turned out that Constantin N., 40 and Catalin I., 41, held a meeting with Colombian Víctor Manuel P.S. (alias El Viejo), 54, who was related to the Los Mellizos and Medellín cartels, according to information received from the DEA.
 

An example of the kind of operation they carried out: That meeting was to arrange transport for a cargo of cocaine hidden in a shipment of fresh fish that would be leaving from Guayaquil, Ecuador to Algeciras, and from there to Constanza, Romania.

With this information, Ecuadorian police found 364 kilos of pure cocaine ready for shipment at the port in Guayaquil.

In parallel, and thanks to the original conversation between the Romanians and the Colombian in Algeciras, a truck was located between Romania and Hungary, on its way to France, in which 106.5 kilos of pure heroin was found.

The Romanians have been arrested and an international arrest warrant is out for El Viejo.