Aug
15
Police arrested 31 people connected to an international drug ring and seized three tonnes of cocaine from a merchant ship off Spain’s southern coast, the interior ministry said Wednesday.
Spanish police boarded the vessel Monday, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) off the port of Cadiz, and seized over 100 cocaine packages, the ministry said in a statement.
“At the same time, police detained those responsible for sending and collecting the drugs on land,” it added.
“The shipment, managed by a Colombian group from Madrid, was loaded on the ship in South America by an organisation of Bulgarian nationals.”
The ministry did not say which South American country was the source of the cocaine shipment.
Police detained 21 Bulgarians on the ship, six Colombians in Madrid and four Spaniards in the northwestern region of Galicia.
The authorities suspect the drugs were to be shipped overland from Galicia to Madrid.
Spain is the main gateway to Europe for cocaine from Latin America and for cannabis from neighbouring Morocco. Police regularly make large seizures.
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