More than 120 defendants from Belgium, Albania, Colombia and North Africa were accused of having participated in a multinational cocaine and cannabis trafficking enterprise after investigators ...

Prosecutors said eight people were detained following searches carried out in Belgium and the Netherlands earlier this month.

On 9 November 2024, the National Drug Control Agency ( DNCD) carried out the country’s second-largest cocaine seizure, intercepting 2.2 tons of the drug. The cocaine, shipped from Panama and destined ...

The probe focused on a criminal organization involved in trafficking cocaine to Belgium from South America, Central America and Canada, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. The group ...

Belgium and the Netherlands have become major hubs for cocaine trafficking into Europe, overtaking Spain as the primary smuggling route, the EU’s policing agency said Tuesday (7 September).

Even so, according to the Brussels Times, Antwerp prosecutor Franky De Keyser has raised alarm with Belgium's Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne, given that "the mountain of cocaine" is now ...

The cocaine discovered in Germany was hidden in more than 1,700 tins of wall filler Customs authorities in Germany and Belgium have seized a record amount of cocaine - more than 23 tonnes - that ...

File photo. General view of Container ship MSC JOY at the Antwerp harbour, in Belgium, 11 January 2019. [Olivier Hoslet/EPA/EFE] Belgian police seized 11.5 tonnes of pure cocaine hidden in a scrap ...

originating from Uruguay and bound for Belgium, was found to contain 2.16 tons of cocaine. The discovery was made by Belgian Customs on December 28, sparking an investigation into the oversight ...

One place they're witnessing first hand the surge in supply of the drug is at the port of Antwerp in Belgium. In 2022 they seized a record 110 tonnes of cocaine - so much that they didn't have ...

Ecuadorian police seized 2.4 tons of cocaine that was hidden in a container of processed bananas that were to be sent to Belgium, the Ministry of the Interior announced. The alkaloid would be ...