Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
An argument in a hotel in West Africa brought a noise complaint — what police found set dominos falling around the world, unmasking the alleged boss of the lucrative underworld passage called the African Route. And he's an ex-cop from Spain. Let me tell you about it.
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The Mob Reporter here with news of arrests and raids in Africa exposing an important gangland network that linked South America to Europe. The alleged boss has been identified as Miguel Ángel Devesa Mera, a Spaniard from Vigo, in Galicia, a coastal region of Spain’s northwest. Devesa is a former cop, an officer with the Policia Nacional, one of Spain’s two federal police agencies. His past, or more properly his alleged past, sounds like a movie plot, an international action thriller of a renegade cop being bounced from the force and moving to Africa where he uses his skills to a new career as a crime lord. Some of the tales are wild, including a burnt-out Boeing 727 jetliner discovered in the Saharan desert.
Guess what was on board?
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Music is "Far The Days Come" by Letter Box; and "Djinn" by Francis Preve
Vintage map videos by Videvo; Argument video by Yan Krukov, police lights and handcuffs by Kindel Media, running feet by Fauxels, exploding powder image by AFFAN TECH, chainsaw by Tima Miroshnichenko, boiling water by Oleg Magni, POV driving by Magda Ehlers all on Pexels; Abidjan view by Citizen59 from Tunis, Tunisie - Quartier, Affaires au Plateau à Abidjan, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56560514; Market in Abidjan By Georges Hermann Njiale Njiale - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54562194; Driving in desert video by Enrique Hoyos and Sahara sand video by Taryn Elliott at Pexels; Club Juventud de Cambados 88-89 is from Carlos Bericat available here: youtu.be/ciJncXIGJeg; Speed boat leaving harbor and docks in harbor videos by Vivedo; San Pedro street scape: By Axe - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4413662; Sahara desert sand dunes by dabououssama at Videvo.
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An argument in a hotel in West Africa brought a noise complaint — what police found set dominos falling around the world, unmasking the alleged boss of the lucrative underworld passage called the African Route. And he's an ex-cop from Spain. Let me tell you about it.
CHECK OUT MY BONUS CONTENT AND PERKS ON PATREON: patreon.com/TheMobReporter
The Mob Reporter here with news of arrests and raids in Africa exposing an important gangland network that linked South America to Europe. The alleged boss has been identified as Miguel Ángel Devesa Mera, a Spaniard from Vigo, in Galicia, a coastal region of Spain’s northwest. Devesa is a former cop, an officer with the Policia Nacional, one of Spain’s two federal police agencies. His past, or more properly his alleged past, sounds like a movie plot, an international action thriller of a renegade cop being bounced from the force and moving to Africa where he uses his skills to a new career as a crime lord. Some of the tales are wild, including a burnt-out Boeing 727 jetliner discovered in the Saharan desert.
Guess what was on board?
CREDITS:
Music is "Far The Days Come" by Letter Box; and "Djinn" by Francis Preve
Vintage map videos by Videvo; Argument video by Yan Krukov, police lights and handcuffs by Kindel Media, running feet by Fauxels, exploding powder image by AFFAN TECH, chainsaw by Tima Miroshnichenko, boiling water by Oleg Magni, POV driving by Magda Ehlers all on Pexels; Abidjan view by Citizen59 from Tunis, Tunisie - Quartier, Affaires au Plateau à Abidjan, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56560514; Market in Abidjan By Georges Hermann Njiale Njiale - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54562194; Driving in desert video by Enrique Hoyos and Sahara sand video by Taryn Elliott at Pexels; Club Juventud de Cambados 88-89 is from Carlos Bericat available here: youtu.be/ciJncXIGJeg; Speed boat leaving harbor and docks in harbor videos by Vivedo; San Pedro street scape: By Axe - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4413662; Sahara desert sand dunes by dabououssama at Videvo.
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• Crime Watch: youtube.com/CrimeWatchWorld
• Crime in Italy: youtube.com/CrimeInItaly
~ To read my written journalism: nationalpost.com/author/ahumphreys
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Thanks for watching!
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Please watch: "Genius jewel heist wrecked by sloppy mistakes": youtu.be/KkEk0k0d_7Y
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