Spain’s National Police seized 20 tonnes of hashish hidden among boxes of green peppers in refrigerated trucks that had arrived from Morocco, in an operation with Morocco’s Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) directed by the Algeciras anti-drugs prosecutor.[1][2] The operation, named Radnor, dismantled two criminal organisations that sought to move the drug through the port of Algeciras into Europe.[1]
The first blow came on 21 October on a farm in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, where officers stopped a truck carrying 12,000 kilograms of hashish behind crates of peppers, while escort cars watched for police checkpoints.[1][2] Three days later officers intercepted a second truck from Tangier in a warehouse in northern Granada and found another 8,000 kilograms behind a wooden structure camouflaged with vegetables.[1][2]
Twenty people were detained in total and jailed on charges of international drug trafficking and belonging to a criminal organisation, five of them in the Granada phase.[1][2] Police also seized nine vehicles, an automatic pistol and more than 7,000 euros in cash, and found some of the drug packed in small brightly coloured wrappers imitating chocolate bars.[1][2]
