The clandestine bank Banca de Dubai was dismantled with 21 detainees and 20 million in assets located

The National Police has dismantled a criminal network linked to the so-called Dubai Banking, considered the most important clandestine bank in the world with the capacity to move large amounts of money and launder the benefits of the major drug trafficking lords.

21 people have been arrested, 14 of them in Spain, among whom the leader or broker of the narcobank stands out. Another seven people involved were arrested under international arrest warrants in the United Arab Emirates (4), Egypt (1), the Netherlands (1) and Sweden (1) and 20 million euros in assets have been located.

The operation, baptized as Drahab and carried out on July 22 by agents of the Central Unit for the Fight against Drugs and Organized Crime (UDYCO) and the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (Udef), in coordination with the Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office of the National Court and in collaboration with Europol and Interpol, represents, in the words of the commissioner in charge of the fight against drug trafficking, a "very important blow."

"We have managed to attack the financing of the so-called aces or numbers one of drug trafficking that flooded Europe with cocaine, so for a while we will be safer," emphasized chief commissioner Alberto Morales of the UDYCO, who has listed the four big drug lords linked to the drug bank.

The investigations began following the seizure in waters near the Asturian coast in 2021 of the Nehir ship with almost two tons on board and another 1.6 tons that were sunk. The agents have verified that the organization had Dubai Banking.