Cocaine disguised as wooden pallets seized in Valencia
Monday, December 14, 2015 @ 11:23 AM
Spanish police have seized dozens of pallets made out of 1.4 tonnes of compressed cocaine that was made to look like wood and imported into Spain via the port of Valencia.
They also uncovered cocaine disguised as charcoal as part of the same shipment from Colombia to the Mediterranean city.
The shipments are linked to a large-scale smuggling ring operating between Latin American and Europe and police suspect that smugglers used a charcoal company in Spain as a front to import the cocaine.
The drugs were then extracted from pallets and charcoal, processed and distributed around Europe.
The authorities have arrested 12 people in Spain, Britain and Dubai, describing two of the Colombians arrested in Spain as expert chemists and drug manipulators, sent over to Spain to reverse the process used to disguise the cocaine and extract it again ready to sell on the streets.
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