3,340 kg of hashish seized from Tangier lorries at Algeciras port
On 24 November 2023 Spain's Tax Agency and the Civil Guard reported seizing 3,340 kg of hashish hidden in false compartments of four lorries that had arrived at the port of Algeciras from Tangier. Three drivers were arrested.
Officers of the Tax Agency’s Customs Surveillance Service and Civil Guards of the port of Algeciras seized more than three tonnes of hashish concealed in false bottoms fitted to four lorries that arrived at the port from Tangier.[1]
The first seizure came from a trailer that arrived without its tractor unit, with more than 350 kilos hidden in a false bottom.[1]Three more tractor-trailer combinations inspected from a single vessel held further stashes built into walls, floors and doors, and officers removed 3,340 kilos of hashish blocks from the four trailers in total.[1]
The four trailers and three tractor units were seized, and the three drivers were arrested on suspicion of an offence against public health and handed to the judicial authorities with the case files.[1]
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