Spanish authorities confiscated almost 9 lots of drug discovered in a container aboard a ship at the port of Algeciras.

So much 5 individuals have actually been apprehended in link to the delivery.

Officials with Spain’s Customs Department stated detectives confiscated a total amount of 8,740 kgs of the medication found concealed in a container of bananas from Colombia on the containership Lucie Schulte.

The seizure is the biggest solitary seizure of drug ever before made in Spain in addition to the biggest in Europe where the medicines were smuggled in a delivery container, Spain’s Customs Department stated.

Working on an idea, representatives with Spain’s Customs and also Tax Agency and also National Police accomplished a raid of the ship on Sunday, April 22, after it had actually anchored at the port of Algeciras.

The medicines were discovered inside a container amongst 1,080 boxes of bananas packed at the Port of Turbo in Colombia.

Police tracked the containers to their location at n commercial structure in Malaga, Spain, where they apprehended 3 individuals from the importing business. Two others were additionally apprehended in France about the delivery.

The Lucie Schulte has actually considering that been launched and also has actually continued its trip to theMediterranean The vessel is signed up in Singapore and also has a small TEU capability of 2,572.