Balkan Cartel loses 980 kg of cocaine

60% of the narcotics market in Europe is run by criminal structures from the Balkans. The Balkans Cartel specializes in drug-smuggling on various yachts and sailboats. The African smuggling route, south of the Canary Islands and towards the shores of West Africa is used often. That's where 980 one kilo packages of high-purity cocaine was intercepted. In 2019 cops from across the globe teamed up against a Balkan organized crime network using private planes for large-scale cocaine trafficking.