Dismantled network that created secret compartments in luxury cars that came to Portugal with drug

Spanish authorities dismantled a drug trafficking network specialized in transporting large quantities of cocaine using modified vehicles with secret compartments. The operation, conducted by the Civil Guardia in collaboration with the Portuguese Judicial Police, resulted in the detention of 13 suspects and the seizure of 28 vehicles, including cars, vans, trailers, a motorcycle and even a sailboat used to bring drug from South America to The Iberian Peninsula.

The network operated from two clandestine workshops around Madrid, where it equipped vehicles with sophisticated hydraulic mechanisms that camouflaged the secret compartments. One of the most ingenious methods required the car to be connected, with the glove frame open and certain air exits from the adjusted panel to trigger the hidden opening system.

Investigations indicate that traffickers had Portugal, Italy and Germany as destinations for modified vehicles, reinforcing the international dimension of the now dismantled operation.