Loaded into one of the fuel tanks cocaine enough to provide six million rows 174 million euros to addicts and dealers. The 20-meter-long Turkish fishing vessel AKT 1 is the most valuable piece recently collected in the joint operations of the Safety, Security and Treasury: There were 2.9 tons of drugs on board.
This Saturday afternoon, the drug ship, intercepted by security forces as part of the so-called Operation Capirote-Piteas-Acerico, arrived in the port of Las Palmas. This deployment, led by the National Supreme Court Drug Enforcement Prosecutor’s Office, ended on the afternoon of April 13, 300 miles south of the Canary Islands, when the Cóndor patrol boat belonging to the Customs Surveillance Service was recently released: on April 15, Canary Islands-, Caught in the waters of the Canary-Saharan fishing bank. There were four Turkish sailors and one Georgian on board.
Prior to their approach, the Intelligence Center for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO) and the multinational Maritime Drug Trafficking Analysis and Operations Center (MAOC-N, based in Lisbon) shared intelligence information About the movement of AKT1 on the route organized by Colombian drug dealers between the Americas and the Sahara coast.
coca shipments
AKT 1 set out to sea as if it had started another mission in the same fishing area as many other fishing boats on the expedition. Its job was to transfer the cocaine shipment to other auxiliary ships tasked with getting it practically undetectable to the mainland, the Sahara coast or the Canary coast. The approach reported that a memo issued by the Civil Guard this Sunday was carried out. rough seas and winds of up to 60 knots.
Security forces were slow to get the ship to the Canary Islands due to poor mechanical conditions. This is a “substandard” boat. In the maritime world, this is what is called those who lack comparable security measures. The poor condition of his engines brought the ship to the brink of fire.and his captors had to make a technical stop at the Arguineguín docks before taking him to Las Palmas.
The anti-drug units of the National Police and Civil Guard call it the “African road.” The maritime area where this fishing vessel with its significant cargo was captured is already known to Spanish patrol boats. pharmaceutical cargo transfer area. Fishing boats of diverse nationalities and riches fishing on this shore, lured by the cold Canarian current, are lured by the middlemen of Colombian drug dealers to act as little clearinghouses floating on the high seas for drugs from South America. The ships took turns in the middle of the Atlantic.