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This footage shows the massive £480m Spanish drugs haul that led to the arrests of five Liverpool men.
Three tonnes of cocaine thought to be destined for Merseyside was intercepted in northern Spain after a tip-off from the National Crime Agency.
The video shows Spanish police uncovering vast amounts of cocaine at a warehouse in Galicia, as well as a firearm and one million euro (£730,000) in cash.
The drugs find is the biggest in the Galicia region for two decades.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) suspect the drugs were due to be smuggled out of the country in a specially adapted van and were destined for Merseyside.
The raid was carried out on December 14, but under Spanish law details were only made public today.
Five men from Liverpool – two aged 47 and the other three aged 31, 34 and 59 – were arrested.
A 41-year-old man from Kingston in Surrey and a man aged 50 from Thornbury in Gloucestershire were also held, along with two Spaniards and two Dutch men.
Police swooped on a warehouse in Galicia, north west Spain, where the gang were about to load part of the stash into a secret compartment in the roof of a van.
The ECHO understands that the British gang had put down a 500,000 euro (£360,000) deposit for the first 700kg of the drug, which was due to be driven back to the UK stashed in the adapted van.
Spanish national police described the gang as a “major international drug trafficking organization dedicated to maritime transport of cocaine from South America to Europe”.
They said the drug was imported to Spain by boat and that the traffickers had agreed to the sell the wares to Brits based on the Costa del Sol.
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