On 24 February, an article in Insight Crime reported that law enforcement in Latin America and Europe have disrupted a cocaine smuggling network that reached from Bolivia to Dubai, resulting in the arrests of a Paraguay-based dealer of armoured vehicles and a racehorse owner in Brazil. Security forces coordinated by Europol raided some 40 sites in Brazil, Paraguay and Spain. This concluded an 18-month investigation into the network, which was linked to seizures of at least 8 tons of cocaine and $2 million in cash in Belgium, Brazil, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
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