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An international drug-trafficking soccer hooligan network

The arrest of several members of an international drug trafficking organization made up of soccer hooligans in Argentina adds to mounting evidence of the involvement of these groups in organized crime. Español

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On September 26, Argentine authorities arrested 15 people suspected of belonging to a network of criminal soccer hooligan groups - known in Latin America as barras bravas - that imported drugs from Colombia and sold them throughout Greater Buenos Aires, according to a report from Clarín.

The operation against the so-called Soccer Hooligan Cartel also included more than 20 raids in which authorities seized at least 1.100 doses of cocaine and 1.400 doses of paco (a smokable paste from an intermediate stage of cocaine production), and more than a kilogram of marijuana.