Europol helps dismantle a Europe–Latin America cocaine network linked to the Los Lobos cartel, with 16 arrests, 26 raids and 4+ tonnes seized, exposing a major transnational illicit-finance scheme

Authorities in Ecuador, Belgium and the Netherlands arrest 16 suspects, raid 26 properties and seize cash, firearms and vehicles while targeting a network that used fruit-export businesses to conceal cocaine shipments bound for European ports. The investigation also intercepts major consignments—including several tonnes of cocaine seized in Dutch and Belgian ports—and exposes cooperation between the Ecuadorian cartel and an Albanian trafficking network responsible for distributing the drugs across Europe…