Spanish authorities announced on Monday that they seized seven tons of cocaine stored in containers for sea transportation a three suspected smugglers were arrested. The Civil Guard said that the operation began on Friday, when in the mouth of the Guadalquivir River discovered two suspicious motorboatsinforms TASR according to a report by the AFP news agency.
The vessels were traced to a rural residence in the village of Coria del Rio south of the city of Seville, where the suspects stored the drugs in two containers hidden underground. The Civil Guard approached that it was going o the largest seized contraband of cocaine smuggled into southern Spain by motor boat.
At the same time, the police confiscated three weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle and two stolen vehicles.
Spain is for international drug smugglers one of the main “entrance gates” to Europe due to its proximity to Africa’s Morocco, which is a leading producer of hemp, and due to close ties with former colonies in Latin America.
