Hashish found in luggage on a Madrid–Malabo flight at Malabo airport; one held
Gendarmerie officers at Malabo airport found hashish in a piece of luggage carried on a Plus Ultra flight from Madrid and opened an investigation into a trafficking ring. One person was publicly reported detained; he told customs officers it was the third time he had collected the drug.
🇬🇶 Malabo International Airport, Malabo · Equatorial Guinea
Gendarmerie officers at Malabo airport found a hashishconsignment in luggage on
a Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas flight that had arrived from Madrid.[1]The
detection at the airport led the authorities to open an investigation into a
trafficking network.[1]
The authorities made public the detention of one person, who told customs
officers it was the third time he had collected the drug.[1]That person was
described as the one who collected the merchandise and handed it to the
recipients, who distributed it to customers or end users.[1]
The Equatorial Guinean authorities did not give the exact origin of the
substance or identify who sent it.[1]The scheme routed oversized luggage
through a separate check-in desk and onto the baggage belt, so that it skipped
the cargo terminal, customs and police controls.[1]
The route was operated with Plus Ultra aircraft and crews from its start in 2021
until November 2025.[1]Spain’s UDEF financial crime unit later entered the
airline’s offices and detained several senior executives.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
El Españolelespanol.comESPlus Ultra llevó "dinero, drogas y material peligroso" entre Guinea y España en maletas facturadas a pasajeros sin que lo supieran
Open questions the AI reported
Only one accessible source reports this seizure, El Español, which cites reporting by Equatorial Guinean media and does not reproduce their original text.
No day or exact date is given, only May 2024; the incident date is approximate and mid-May stands in for it.
No weight, value or number of packages of hashish was published.
The total number of people detained is unclear: one detention was made public, while the article also says an investigation into a trafficking network followed without identifying others.
The article says the authorities did not establish the exact origin of the substance or identify those who sent it, and only says the context coincides with the luggage scheme it describes.
No charges, prosecutor's decision or court outcome was reported, and the suspect was not named.
The article's photographs show luggage and emails from the Madrid-Barajas end of the scheme, not this Malabo seizure, so no photos of the event are listed.
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