Spanish police confiscated cocaine worth 114 million dollars from a cattle ship

MADRID, 28 january (Reuters) – An estimated 105 million euros (114 million dollars) confiscated 4.5 tons of cocaine.

The ship had stopped at ports in about a dozen countries before Tuesday’s raid, and police said drug smugglers had begun using the cattle ships because the police it was difficult to track their illegal cargo.

“International organizations are reinventing themselves to transport drugs from Latin America to Europe, using livestock to make control and localization difficult,” the Spanish police said in a statement.

Police Spanish authorities, USA The War on Drugs As a result of the operation carried out by the Department and the Togolese police, 28 crew members of the Togolese-flagged Orion V ship brought from Colombia imprisonment did.

Officers unloaded dozens of crates of cocaine at the port of Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria.

($1 = 0.9202 euros)

Added by Graham Keeley and Miguel Gutierrez report Edited by Helen Popper

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2023-01-28 16:59:54
Source – reuters

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