Aided by the cracking of two encrypted messaging platforms, #SkyECC and #Encrochat, stricter border controls and inspections at major ports, European officials seized a record 419 metric tons of #cocaine in 2023, ... roughly the weight of a fully loaded Boeing 747.

Law enforcement … believe almost one third of Europe’s cocaine is now routed through West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, and they expect that to rise to half by 2030.

https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/faq-why-are-some-european-drug-gangs-burying-cocaine-instead-of-selling-it