Updated 20:40 | Published 20:20
Spanish police have made a record drug seizure.
Hidden in banana boxes, 9,436 kilos of cocaine were found.
The packaging had several different logos – including that of the Swedish government office.
The Spanish police have found over 9.5 tons of cocaine. The drugs had been hidden in banana boxes in a container in the port of Algeciras in southern Spain, according to a press release from the police.
The cocaine, which had been shipped from Ecuador and was to be transported to Portugal, had been packaged with over 30 different logos.
Among other things with swastikas and the text “Hitler” – but also with the shield of the Swedish Government Chancellery. Something like Today’s news previously reported on.
“Historically large” seizure
It was last week that the Spanish police, in a joint operation with customs officials, made what they themselves call the “historically large” seizure.
The operation, which they called “Operation Nano”, began in mid-July after the police became aware that an international criminal organization was smuggling narcotics into the country.
The Spanish police’s theory is that the logos mark which criminal group was intended as the recipient of the packages.
“This operation has been an unprecedented blow to one of the most important criminal organizations in the world in the distribution of cocaine whose recipients were the main criminal networks in Europe,” the Spanish police write in the press release.