In a landmark move, the UAE extradited notorious drug trafficker Othman El Ballouti to Belgium under a 2021 treaty. This ...

He was the biggest catch of them all, accused of orchestrating a vast cocaine pipeline from Latin America to Europe, using ...

Police have rounded up a large cocaine gang operating in Belgium. The smugglers brought the drugs into the country from Ghana ...

Belgian national Othman El Ballouti, sanctioned by the U.S. for drug trafficking, was extradited from Dubai after years of ...

Belgian authorities arrested 166 suspected uithalers, or container drug retrievers, in the port of Antwerp during the first ...

With only 49 million inhabitants, Spain ranks 31st as one of the world’s most populous countries, but more recently, it has ...

Antwerp, a North Sea city of 530,000, has become the main gateway for cocaine flooding into Europe. In 2023 alone, Belgian authorities seized a staggering 116 tons of it – more than the entire ...

A convicted drugs kingpin believed to be in hiding in Sierra Leone has been ordered to pay €96 million to the Dutch state in the country’s biggest ever proceeds of crime case. The sum is much less ...

Toxicologists are warning against the danger of the human body overheating, or hyperthermia, as a result of taking drugs.

ONCE famous for its diamonds and cobbled charm, this picturesque port city is now better known for something far more sinister. Welcome to Europe’s cocaine capital, where gangland feuds erupt in ...

After the successes against cocaine gangs last week, Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe talks to investigators about the ...

Britain is taking more cocaine than ever before. The UK is now the largest consumer of cocaine per capita in Europe, and the second largest in the world (behind Australia), according to a 2023 ...