Eight people have been arrested after the Spanish Civil Guard caught the "mats", unloading a shipment of 600 kilograms of cocaine that arrived in Valencia hidden in a container of avocados coming from Peru.
The arrests took place on Monday when the traffickers were loading the drugs into a van, while this Thursday they appeared before the Valencia Court.
According to the authorities' file, the shipment of cocaine left the port of Callao, Peru, hidden inside the container of avocados, and arrived in Valencia two weeks ago.
From that moment, agents of the Organized Crime and Anti-Drug Team (EDOA) of the Valencia Command inspected the shipment and subjected it to a close surveillance, after the Valencia court ordered the control of the shipment, to recover the drugs in due time.
The cargo of avocados was tracked to a warehouse in an industrial area in Malaga, where the fruit was unloaded. After that, the same truck returned to Valencia with the container, now empty, and deposited it at a container terminal in Quart de Poblet.
The arrested intended to take the drugs in a van that they left parked on the street, in which some were loading the packages.
Of the eight suspected traffickers arrested, seven are Spanish and the eighth is Albanian. The latter acted as the 'Notary' of the criminal organization that had ordered the shipment of cocaine in Peru and that would pay the Colombian producers and then take care of its distribution in Madrid and other European markets.
This is the second shipment of this size, seized in a few days in Valencia, after the seizure of 561 kilograms of cocaine in a warehouse of a metal company in Almassora. In that case, the drugs were hidden inside six metal cylinders that were part of a shipment of scrap metal from Panama. (A2 Televizion)
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