Police in Portugal pulled off a huge bust, catching a Danish outlaw biker network elbow‑deep in 1.3 tons of cocaine.

Proud Danish police chief: »We’ve curbed, slowed, and at the very least disrupted, cocaine smuggling as much as possible«

File photo: Kilos of cocaine seized by Danish police in an earlier operation targeting smuggling into Denmark. Not related to the current case.
File photo: Kilos of cocaine seized by Danish police in an earlier operation targeting smuggling into Denmark. Not related to the current case.
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This is likely the largest batch of cocaine ever seized by Danish police.

The bust took place in the Portuguese port city of Portimão in close cooperation between Copenhagen Police, South and Southern Jutland Police, Portuguese police, and the Spanish police unit Udyco.

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