Spanish police have dismantled one of the world’s largest cocaine trafficking networks, seizing 10 tons of the drug and arresting five suspects in a joint operation with Colombian authorities.

Three arrests were made in Spain and two in Colombia during seven raids, though officials did not disclose exact locations or where the drugs were found.

The network reportedly smuggled around 120 tons of cocaine annually from Colombia to Europe via ports in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain, and had ties to Colombia’s Clan del Golfo criminal group.

The traffickers used shell companies, frontmen, and complex smuggling schemes, with leaders coordinating operations from Colombia, Spain, and Dubai, DPA International has reported.

Investigators also uncovered a $700 million money-laundering operation through offshore firms and cryptocurrency, aided by access to encrypted Sky ECC messages, in a probe launched in 2022 codenamed “Gulupa.”