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WATCH: Human trafficking gang arrested after smuggling 700 Moroccan refugees into mainland Spain via Canary Islands

A HUMAN-trafficking operation has been smashed by Policia Nacional and Europol in Spain. Hundreds of desperate refugees were allegedly transported by the gang from Morocco

18 Dec, 2020 @ 15:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

WATCH: Violent eastern European drug traffickers who smuggled guns among COVID-19 medical supplies busted on Spain’s Costa Blanca with help from UK cops

A VICIOUS drug trafficking gang has been dramatically captured during a house raid in Alicante. The bust concluded an international investigation involving police forces from

12 Oct, 2020 @ 13:30

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead

Armed smugglers arrested as quarter tonne of drugs hidden among Indian spices seized on way to Spain’s southern coast

HUGE quantities of weapons and marijuana destined for the Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol have been intercepted by Spanish and Dutch National Police. An

28 Sep, 2020 @ 12:01

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Parrot smugglers arrested on Spain’s Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca after netting €1 million trafficking exotic birds to Africa

SPANISH police and the Moroccan Royal Guard have arrested a gang of 28 bird traffickers who were earning over €1 million a year. Some 280

20 Jul, 2020 @ 11:38

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead

WATCH: Seven high-speed boats seized as drug trafficking gang smashed on Spain’s Costa Blanca

MORE than three tonnes of hashish and seven specially-adapted speedboats have been seized in a combined police operation on the Costa Blanca. A total of

17 Jul, 2020 @ 12:18

Costa Blanca·Lead

Guardia Civil officer busted smuggling migrants into Spain’s Andalucia inside his car

The man has been arrested, together with his 23-year-old Moroccan wife and two other collaborators,

7 Jul, 2020 @ 12:25

Cadiz·Lead·Malaga

Three La Linea youths arrested on drug smuggling charges after sea chase

Three youths from La Linea de la Concepcion and a fourth person from Ceuta have been arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling on Monday.

3 Jun, 2020 @ 19:30

Crime & Law·Gibraltar

Man arrested for smuggling millions of euros worth of endangered eels from Spain to East Asia

A MAN has been convicted of smuggling an estimated €62.5 million worth of critically endangered baby eels from Spain to East Asia via the UK.

10 Feb, 2020 @ 13:51

Crime & Law·Lead

TOTAL BANKER: Billionaire handed €52.4 million fine after botched attempt at smuggling priceless Picasso painting out of Spain on yacht

Picasso completed Head of a Young Woman in his pre-Cubist phase, with the painting snapped up by Botin in London in 1977

17 Jan, 2020 @ 10:31

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead

WATCH: Police catch drug smugglers at gun-point in dramatic Costa Calida raid

GUARDIA Civil have dismantled at gun-point a drug smuggling gang in the Mar Menor region of Murcia. Investigations began in September, when the number of

30 Dec, 2019 @ 13:37

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Cannabis cops mixed up in Mar Menor marijuana mountain

A PAIR of Spanish policemen are among 26 accused of bringing over two tonnes of drugs onto the Costa Blanca. All are up before Murcia’s

18 Dec, 2019 @ 22:04

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law

WATCH: Gang of child-abducting Costa Almeria drug traffickers get arrested by Spanish police and Europol in joint swoop

A MULTINATIONAL group of drug-smugglers that used children to transport their contraband has been dismantled after the Spanish Policía Nacional, the French Police Nationale and

19 Sep, 2019 @ 19:42

Almeria·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

TO BOLDLY STOW: Six British people arrested with tonne of cocaine on Spanish boat named ‘Bold’

A gang of six UK drugs traffickers have been arrested by Spanish and British police

6 Sep, 2019 @ 13:48

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Huelva·Lead·Mallorca

‘I KILL YOU’: Shouts suspected drug smuggler as he unloads hash on popular tourist beach on Spain’s Costa del Sol

The ordeal took place in broad daylight in a public spot, with several beach-goers visible in frame only a matter of metres away

4 Sep, 2019 @ 11:04

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

16 arrested in southern Spain for building ILLEGAL luxury drug compound with high walls and swimming pools

POLICE have arrested 16 people who illegally built 14 luxury villas with swimming pools in La Linea. Investigators believe the 11,000 square metre estate in

4 Jan, 2019 @ 11:48

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead

Spain makes fresh demands over Gibraltar in Brexit negotiations

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez met with chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier to seek a new Gibraltar chapter in the Brexit agreement this week

18 Sep, 2018 @ 13:00

Gibraltar·Lead·Politics

Spanish Tax Agency questions Gibraltar’s tobacco imports

THE motive behind Gibraltar’s exhaustive importation of tobacco has been questioned by new figures. The Rock imported 72 million packs of cigarettes in 2017 despite

4 Mar, 2018 @ 14:30

Lead·National News

Father of eight-year-old boy smuggled into Spain by suitcase avoids jail

THE father of an eight-year-old boy who was smuggled into Spain from Morocco in a suitcase has escaped a prison sentence. Ivorian Ali Ouattara was

21 Feb, 2018 @ 16:23

Lead·National News

Spanish cops bust €1.5 million international car smuggling ring

GUARDIA Civil have busted an international car smuggling ring worth at least €1.5 million. Supported by the Bulgarian Police, Portuguese Police and Europol, ‘Operation Historic’

15 Nov, 2017 @ 13:18

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca·National News