Drugs gangs face crackdown in both Ireland and Spain

Gardaí have pledged further joint operations with foreign police after hailing the seizures and arrest made in yesterday’s co-ordinated raids as very significant.

Officers from the Guardia Civil in Spain, the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, the Criminal Assets Bureau and Europol worked together to plan and carry out the simultaneous early morning raids in southern Spain and Dublin.

Six homes in Dublin and five properties in Marbella and Malaga were searched and large amounts of cash and documentation seized.