Belgian justice authorities in cooperation with SPAK are investigating a criminal group composed of Albanians, suspected of being involved in trafficking large quantities of cocaine from Latin America to Europe.
But unlike other similar criminal groups, the transportation of cocaine was not done in banana containers, but special places on merchant ships.
The drugs were then dumped into the open sea and then collected by small fishing boats at specific coordinates. In one of the cases, investigators suspect that the criminal group also used a submarine.
Sources close to the investigation group confirmed that the cocaine was imported mainly from Ecuador and Brazil and that the group also had the possibility of processing it in a laboratory in Belgium. The criminal group appears to have had contacts and people with whom it interacted in several European countries, in Latin America, but also in Africa, from where it is suspected that they transported drug shipments.
On two occasions, authorities have seized nearly 400 kg of cocaine in total in three shipments, two of which in the port of Antwerp in Belgium and the other in the port of Brak in Germany.
The investigation so far has identified at least 5 people, while work is underway to identify other people for whom investigators only have their nicknames.
According to the investigation, the suspects communicate with each other using encrypted phones, and their trips to Dubai and their meetings in hotels in Belgium were also documented, where conversations took place about trafficking large quantities of cocaine.
