Spanish police are rolling drug network: two arrests in Belgium
Some suspects are linked to the Hells Angels motorcycle club in our country. – © Dutch freelancers
The Spanish police have rolled up a drug gang in collaboration with the European Police Agency Europol. Twenty people were arrested, two of whom in Belgium. The network is suspected of being involved in cocaine smuggling via the port of the Spanish Valencia, the Spanish police reported on Saturday.
Some suspects are linked to the Hells Angels motorcycle club in our country. Seventeen of the arrests, however, took place in Spain, one in France. Eleven house searches were also carried out, nine in Spain and two in Belgium. More than a ton of cocaine, two firearms, virtual portfolios, forbidden weapons and eight luxury cars were seized.
Through an intermediary, the gang got access to the port and the drugs were picked up with « spidermen » that climbed the containers. They then transported the cocaine in trucks to warehouses from which it was distributed throughout Europe.
According to the Spanish National Police, the leader of the Belgian branch of the organization was « one of the most important criminals in the country ». He has been searched for four years, but was hiding in luxury homes on the Spanish coast.
