The organized criminal group was mainly involved with trafficking of cocaine from Latin America, particularly from Bolivia.
The group was lead by E.P. who had a number of contacts with traffickers from Bolivia. For a period of time he lived in Bolivia, where he kept in touch with the traffickers. He was the one providing cocaine from Bolivia.

He used to hide the cocaine, which varied between 10 – 20 kg, in foodstuff coming from Bolivia as producer country, mainly rice. The trade firm “D-Cont” was used as a purchaser. The company was registered under the name of D.B. who was a member of the group.

The company was used only to order the goods, but didn’t have real trade activity.

The containers went through the following sea itinerary: Santa Cruz, Bolivia – Rotterdam, Holland, Malta – Durres Albania.

D. B was used only as the owner of a legal company ordering the foodstuff, mainly rice.
E. S. was used for other actions after the goods arrived to the port of Durres, Albania. He dealt with the customs, accompanying the load to the destination, which was mainly in the suburb of Tirana, far from the living area. He dealt with the extraction of the cocaine from the load and its hiding. Later on the rice was sold at the market for a low price.
The cocaine was hidden inside the wooden pallets that kept the rice loading.

Dutch custom's authorities of Rotterdam port confiscated 8 kg of cocaine hidden in the wooden pallets of a rice load, inside container no.TGHU3497963, destination Durrësi Port, Albania.

Both countries' prosecutor's offices agreed to conduct controlled delivery for this load, replacing the narcotics with a similar substance, leaving an amount of just 10 gram.

On 28.10.2010 the above mentioned container arrived on board the boat "ALEMANIA" at the port of Durrës. Through investigative and police actions the company who ordered the load was identified, which was "D-Cont" with the legal representative D. B. (alias Ago), and the persons dealing with the custom's clearance of this load, citizens E. S. and E. P.

In cooperation with custom's authorities, continuous container's surveillance became possible. On 02.11.2010 the load transited from Durresi to Tirana Customs, where the clearance was made by E. P. and E.S. Afterwards, E.P. asked E.S. to accompany the container to the right place to unload. The latter with the vehicle TR 3936 S accompanied the container into a living area, into the first floor of a building still in construction. Before this he had contacted 4 persons who would unload the rice and sent them the place of the above mentioned vehicle.

At around 5 PM the unloading began. When the workers put the sacks in the storehouse, E.S. dismantled the pallets and took the parcels wrapped with adhesive and put them in his vehicle TR 3936 S.

All the actions were monitored by the police, and around this time the operation was finalized. E.S. was arrested in flagranti delicto in the moment he was taking the parcels. A few minutes later E.P. was arrested in his apartment.

The container with 15 tons of rice was confiscated, together with 26 parcels wrapped with brown adhesive, an amount of 10 g cocaine, a pistol model 56 (captured from E.S.), 35 pistol bullets (found while D.B.'s apartment was searched), a passport in the name of S.G. but counterfeit with the picture of E.P., and his passport as well with the no. Z2187674. In this passport a number of Bolivian stamps and visas were found.