All news on the topic: Drug trafficking

Former Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada pleaded guilty Monday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, saying he was sorry for helping to flood the U.S. with cocaine and other illicit substances.

A duo of ’business partner’ brothers have been jailed for their involvement in a drug trafficking operation. Geoffrey Kirk, 43, and Lee Kirk, 54, distributed cocaine and cannabis to clients nationwide over a four-year span.

Iraqi and Lebanese authorities say they have shut down what they described as the Middle East’s largest Captagon factory, a major blow against the region’s booming trade in the amphetamine-like drug.

According to new research, an alliance in the style of espionage is needed to dismantle organized crime groups that have become so advanced they now pose a threat to Britain’s national security.

Mexico extradited 26 alleged members of the CJNG and Sinaloa cartels to the United States, with President Claudia Sheinbaum insisting the move was a sovereign decision amid growing pressure from Washington to crack down on drug trafficking.

Albanian police arrested 10 suspected members of an organized crime network involved in multi-ton cocaine trafficking and money laundering, Europol said Tuesday.

Jamie Rothwell, a key figure in Salford’s feared Anti A-Team gang, was caught supplying deadly weapons and moving huge quantities of drugs through messages on an encrypted phone network

The US has doubled a reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to $50m (£37.2m), accusing him of being "one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world".

The Lebanese army killed three of the country’s “most dangerous” drug traffickers in an armed clash Wednesday in the eastern city of Baalbek, according to a military statement.

Italian police have arrested 13 Chinese nationals in a nationwide raid targeting suspected Chinese mafia networks, authorities said Monday.

Senior Kinahan cartel boss Thomas ’Bomber’ Kavanagh has been ordered to pay the British State over €1.7 million following a proceeds-of-crime investigation - or spend 12 more years behind bars.

Kuwait’s Interior Ministry has prevented an attempt to smuggle nearly four million Captagon tablets into the country, valued at approximately $39.3 million.

Three British individuals accused of smuggling drugs into Bali have avoided the death penalty and were given a one-year sentence.

Marset, who is wanted in the U.S. and Paraguay, styled himself as a music promoter across Latin America.

A British mother-of-two has been arrested in Mauritius after she was accused of trying to smuggle cannabis inside her six-year-old son’s suitcase.

Belgian national Othman El Ballouti, sanctioned by the U.S. for drug trafficking, was extradited from Dubai after years of investing in luxury real estate across the emirate.

Authorities in Italy, Spain, and Albania have arrested 28 suspected members of a drug trafficking network linked to the ’Ndrangheta, Europol announced on Tuesday.

A Thai police chief has disputed Bella May Culley’s defence that she was tortured into smuggling drugs as he presented CCTV of her ‘calmly’ walking through passport control by herself.

Against the backdrop of international isolation and internal instability in Russia, the significance of ethnic criminal clans is rapidly growing.

Dormant Bitcoin wallets that had been inactive for over 14 years have suddenly become active. Initially, four addresses each transferred 10,000 BTC.

More than 1,800 tonnes of drugs have been seized as organized crime penetrates major EU seaports, with Antwerp and Rotterdam at the center, raising increasing concerns about corruption among port staff, customs officials, and law enforcement.

The U.S. Treasury issued its first actions under the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, designating three Mexico-based financial institutions as primary money laundering concerns tied to drug cartels and synthetic opioid trafficking.