ALGECIRAS, Spain-Spanish police and customs on Friday announced the seizure of nearly 9.5 tonnes of cocaine from Ecuador, in what they described as the country's biggest-ever haul of the drug.
Packages of cocaine totalizing 9,436 kilos, that were found hidden in a container from Ecuador, are seen during a police press conference at the port of Algeciras, southern Spain, on August 25, 2023. Spanish police and customs officials today announced the seizure of nearly 9.5 tonnes of cocaine from Ecuador, saying it marked Spain's biggest seizure to date.
Prior to this seizure, Spain's biggest cocaine bust was of 8.7 tonnes in 2018, also found in a supposed banana container in Algeciras, which was loaded in Colombia. "A shipment of this volume implies that they have already successfully made previous shipments," he added. The authorities said the organisations operated through an international banana trading company based in Ecuador's port of Machala.
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