in 1,080 banana boxes he hid largest load of cocaine of the History of Spain. The authorities intervenedn 9,436 kilograms coming from Colombia via Ecuador, as reported Friday by the Spanish police.
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Upon seizure of the medicine last Wednesday in the Spanish port city Algeciras (south) The cooperation of a network of prosecutors in Latin America contributed to this, which was highlighted during an appearance before the responsible police media, such as the head of the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit of the Spanish police, Alberto Morales.
The operation continues to track down those allegedly responsible for the shipment from South America of the medicine, that it was hidden in a shipment of 1,080 boxes of bananas from Ecuador and to the recipients in Spain, with no arrests made so far.
“It is a container where the other containers came, they sent ‘banana’ from Ecuador,” says the chief inspector in dialogue with radio La W. And he added that the shipment was “cocaine coming from Colombia where they send from Ecuador. They used an international banana company as a cover.”
The police assume that it is one of the organizations of drug trafficking the most important in the world and the cache is also one of the largest in history Europe, where the drug would be distributed.
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The cache intervened Algeciras, one of the main cargo ports of Europewould be sent to the port of Lisbon to be distributed from there in Central Europe.
This organization has an important business network to guarantee shipments from Ecuador to the Spanish ports of Algeciras and Vigo (Northwest), with a large logistics capacity, which, according to this source, is able to ship 40 containers to Europe every month.
For Officer Morales, this structure has robust logistics: “To be able to ship all these tons, we are talking about an organization with very large logistics. We are collecting the puzzle pieces to see if we can dismantle this group,” he emphasized in dialogue with the radio station.
The network includes a company dedicated to international trade in Machala (Ecuador), from where it has sent the goods in sea containers to several Spanish companies controlled by members of the criminal organization, police said.
Source: El heraldo
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