Law enforcement actions were targeted against a network that organized the smuggling of cocaine from Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador to the EU through logistics centers in West Africa and the Canary Islands.

After the drugs entered the EU, the suspects used transshipment centers in Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Italy for further distribution of cocaine throughout Europe. The leaders of the drug cartel were based in Turkey and Dubai, where they controlled the network.

Spain led the operation against the criminal network for three years, together with Belgium, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Serbia, Turkey, and Croatia.

On the eve of June 12, the Spanish Civil Guard arrested four suspects and conducted searches, during which they seized jewelry, luxury watches, firearms, ammunition, 109,000 euros in cash, and other material evidence. In total, the countries involved in the investigation arrested 40 defendants, seized about 8 tons of cocaine in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain, froze assets worth 12.5 million euros and three million US dollars in Brazil, and over 50 billion euros in Serbia.