Cracking the cartels: global police face legal backlash over tactics

Posted 2022-12-02, The Guardian Headlines

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Law enforcement sources have described it as an embarrassment of riches, a treasure trove that led to raids across Europe and in Dubai this week that were said to have brought down a super-cartel controlling a third of the European cocaine trade. “It was as if we were sitting at the table with the... read full story

"It was as if we were sitting at the table with the criminals,"

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