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Spanish police seized 4.5 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of 105 million euros ($114 million) after raiding a cattle ship off the Canary Islands earlier this week, a statement said on Saturday.
Spanish police seize cocaine worth $114 million from cattle ship
By Borja Suarez
MADRID, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Spanish police seized 4.5
tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of 105 million
euros ($114 million) after raiding a cattle ship off the Canary
Islands earlier this week, a statement said on Saturday.
The ship had stopped at ports in about a dozen countries
before Tuesday’s raid, and police said drug smugglers had
started using livestock ships because it was more difficult for
police to trace their illicit cargo.
“International organisations are reinventing themselves to
transport drugs from Latin America to Europe, using livestock to
make the control and localisation more difficult,” the Spanish
police statement said.
