Geography made Belgium a gateway, but globalisation made it a goldmine. Antwerp’s position, connected by road and rail to ...

In the wake of Europe’s cocaine market more than quadrupling between 2011 and 2021, the Commission in 2023 proposed a plan to ...

Dutch authorities seized 3,300 kilos of cocaine in a warehouse in Standdaarbuiten in the municipality of Moerdijk on Monday morning, arresting eight men from five different countries in one of the ...

Belgium is at risk of turning into a “narco-state” as organised crime has infiltrated ports, the police and even the ...

A record amount of cocaine seized by law enforcement in Belgium has the government in the market for some additional incinerators. Agence France-Presse reports that authorities there have “seized so ...

The Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot (Francophone centrist) has announced that Belgium’s Federal Government is ...

Wholesale prices are in the gutter across much of Europe, forcing drug smugglers to try to manipulate the market. OCCRP ...

Antwerp drug criminal Omar Govers has been arrested in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, Antwerp daily Gazet van Antwerpen ...

THERE WAS nothing obviously amiss, even when inspectors began opening the tubs of passion-fruit pulp about to be shipped out of Callao port in Peru. A chemical test for illicit substances did not ...

ANTWERP, Belgium — (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is expected to meet Tuesday with Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever in the port of Antwerp to discuss maritime security and ...

International cooperation is one of the most successful methods in the fight against drug trafficking, with detection of ships by the US and UK proving fundamental ...