Seized 1,500 kilos of cocaine, in a cardboard shipment, in the Port of Barcelona

It was the US anti-drug agency (DEA) who put the National Police and the Tax Agency on the track, after detecting that an organization based in Panama and Colombia, which intended to introduce four containers in the Port of Barcelona, ​​although only one of them He was carrying cocaine.

Seized 1,500 kilos of cocaine, in a cardboard shipment, in the Port of Barcelona

It was the US anti-drug agency (DEA) who put the National Police and the Tax Agency on the track, after detecting that an organization based in Panama and Colombia, which intended to introduce four containers in the Port of Barcelona, ​​although only one of them He was carrying cocaine. The drug was traveling hidden among legal merchandise: pressed cardboard.

Last Tuesday, agents of the Corps and the Agency deployed a device in the port facilities and that is how they located the container with 1,500 kilos of drugs. It is, as indicated by the Body, one of the largest interventions of an intoxicant, hidden under the 'blind hook' method, in a Spanish port.

This system consists of camouflaging illegal substances among legal merchandise.

In principle, the exporting and importing companies are unaware that their containers are used by the mafias that operate within the ports for the importation and recovery of cocaine in Europe.

In this case, the agents found the drug hidden in 50 bags, under the pressed cardboard. After the count, the narcotest test was positive.


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