Spanish police seize record cocaine haul in banana shipment from Ecuador

Spanish police and customs officers have intercepted the largest known consignment of cocaine ever to reach the country, seizing more than 13 tonnes of the drug, hidden in a cargo of bananas shipped from Ecuador. Spain’s Policía Nacional said the seizure was the second largest recorded in Europe and one of the largest anywhere in the world. The force said the container – which had come from Guayaquil, in Ecuador, to the southern Spanish port of Algeciras – was intercepted when it arrived on 14 October because the Ecuadorian export company behind the shipment had been linked to “illicit trafficking”.

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