Libyan route found for cocaine smuggling into Europe
Investigations by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime have revealed new routes for trafficking cocaine from West Africa to Europe. The ship "Arcadian," financed by a Sierra Leonean company, was intercepted while carrying more than 30 tons of drugs. It was found to be connected to an organized trafficking network that has carried out repeated operations through ports in Libya, Sierra Leone, and West Africa since 2019. Libya is a key transit point within the cocaine smuggling network, with the network’s activities expanding amid weakened oversight and infrastructure investments. It is believed that part of the shipment was headed to Benghazi. These operations are intensifying as drug trafficking from Latin America to Europe via the African coast and Libya continues to increase.
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