In Spain, the Civil Guard, the National Police and the of the Customs Surveillance of the Revenue Agency have A drug trafficking stopped. A common activity for law enforcement, surveillance and control of goods of all nations. What is unusual is the mode with which traffickers tried to smuggle drugs into Spain. The agents, in fact, arrested two people who They were travelling as stowaways on a container ship from Cartagena, Colombia, bound for Algeciras. These, 11 miles away from the port of Ceuta, from the stern of the ship launched three bales containing 100 kilos of cocaine in the sea and then thrown into the sea.

The unusual way in which illicit trafficking is carried out is was discovered thanks to reports of the possible embarkation of a loading of cocaine on a ship departing from Colombia and planned in transit to Algeciras. The container ship in question is turned out to be the Olivia I employed by the CMA company CGM in the MedCarib service connecting Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and the ports of the Caribbean with the Mediterranean ports of Algeciras, Valencia, Barcelona, Marseille, Genoa, Livorno and Malta. The Olivia She had departed Cartagena on 14 October and was expected to Algeciras on October 24.

The ship was immediately placed under surveillance with the use of naval and air forces, an activity that has allowed to discover the modus operandi of the traffickers who They traveled like illegal immigrants, all wearing neoprene, hidden on board the container holder. Near the coast The smugglers threw themselves into the sea along with the cargo of drugs with the aim of being recovered from a boat on which loading the bales of drugs that had been attached to vests of and were equipped with GPS tracking devices.