National police are questioning a Dublin man over a €7m drug seizure

National police are questioning a Dublin man over a €7m drug seizure in the country.
The 62-year-old Irish man was arrested as he and three Spaniards berthed a boat which is alleged to have been full of cannabis. Police pounced on the vessel as it landed in Cadiz in the south of Spain. It is believed that the boat was carrying a tonne of dope. Detectives questioning the Dubliner have refused to reveal his identity except to say that his initials are DAJ. Police sources have said that this seizure was part of a major operation and have heralded it as a big success in the fight against drugs. Before the arrests, the gang is believed to have been under surveillance for two months. Gardai in Ireland say they are not aware of the man's identity, but said he may have entered Spain illegally. It is believed that the gardai were not involved with the arrests and were not asked to liaise with the Spanish police. It is suspected that the arrested man could be travelling on a false passport or may have dual nationality. The drugs that were seized off the boat will be forensically examined in the coming days, and Spanish police will be investigating who the drugs were destined for.

extortionists uncovered

Gang of extortionists was uncovered by National Police thanks to an investigation which began at the beginning of the year after an elderly woman in Cadiz reported that a group of people were physically and verbally abusing her and demanding that she pay them 100,000 euros.
The investigation led to the arrest of four people, three of them residents of Malaga, and all with extensive criminal records.
The suspects, who are aged between 39 and 61, now face charges of allegedly forming an illegal association, extortion and threatening behaviour as well as resisting arrest.
According to the police headquarters in Cadiz, the group was an organised and complex gang which had analysed and studied information gathered on the victim as they had realised she was vulnerable. One officer was injured during the arrest.

El Palmar body

A boat found floating in the sea close to the beach of El Palmar, in Vejer de la Frontera (Cadiz), the corpse of a person in "advanced state of decomposition", which becomes the eighth body found the Cadiz coast during last 2 days.
The government representative in Cadiz confirmed to Reuters that the body was discovered by the crew of a pleasure craft, who told the Civil Guard who are incharge of Maritime Salvage, They sent two boats recovering the body which was taken to to the portof Barbate Cadiz.
The state of decomposition of the body has prevented the sex and nationality of the deceased, the seven North African immigrants who were appearing in the area in the recent days could be linked to the wrecked boat.