Dubai Police bust international crime syndicate for smuggling cocaine in sugar

In a global sting activity, the Dubai Police and policing of France, Spain, and Colombia as of late destroyed a transnational coordinated criminal organization associated with dealing and carrying cocaine in shipments of sugar from South America to Europe.

Code-named ‘Canne à Sucre’, the activity occurred on May 5 when the Dubai Police captured a vital individual from the lawbreaker organization in a synchronized series of assaults in France, Spain, and Colombia. The bust brought about capturing 18 hoodlums and the capture of 22 tons of sugar polluted with cocaine pirated from Colombia through the Port of Le Havre in France.

Monitor General and Director of Anti-Narcotics in France (Ofast), Stéphanie Cherbonnier, applauded Dubai Police’s amazing skill and quick reaction in capturing the crook. “The General Department of Anti-Narcotics at Dubai Police assumed an excellent part in researching and securing the crook.”

He added, “The ongoing trade of safety knowledge between the policing of France, Spain, Colombia and Dubai added to the activity’s prosperity.”

Lieutenant General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, said the Op ‘Canne à Sucre’ is one more accomplishment of the productive participation between Dubai Police and global policing in guaranteeing the world’s security and wellbeing and handling transnational coordinated wrongdoing.

Lt Gen Al Marri ascribed the activity’s prosperity to the nonstop help and the country’s wise administration.

He likewise commended the gigantic endeavors made by the power’s group from the General Department of Criminal Investigations, who found, followed, and captured the suspect. He affirmed that deciding the synchronized party time between nations was the most critical element in the activity’s prosperity.

Brigadier Eid Muhammad Hareb, head of the General Department for Anti-opiates, said everything started in June 2021, when the French specialists researched a few organizations that serious misappropriations during the Covid-19 pandemic emergency. The examiners then, at that point, inferred that those organizations and their directors’ personalities were faked to conceal their criminal operations and plans of pirating drugs into Europe through shipments of defiled sugar from Colombia.

“After fastidious checking, ten hoodlums were captured in France, six of whom were put in detainment; seven others are in Spain, and one in Dubai,” he added.

Brigadier canister Thani affirmed that almost 22 tons of sugar bundled in 900 sacks were seized in Thiais after the freight was dumped at the port of Le Havre in France.