ORANGE YOU GLAD THEY WERE BUSTED
Spanish police smash drugs gang that hid cannabis in orange crates and smuggled it into Britain
Vans raided in Malaga and Seville were carrying over 1,000kg of the illegal drug into the UK
A GANG which smuggled drugs into Britain in crates of oranges has been smashed by police.
Raids were held in Malaga and Seville, southern Spain, after a van carrying more than 1,000kg of cannabis was stopped at a motorway checkpoint.
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The gang set up two import-export firms and hid drugs inside vacuum-packed containers in the middle of the cargoes.
The rest of the cargo was filled with normal orange crates.
Guardia Civil officers arrested 18 people, including Algerian, Paraguayan, French and Portuguese nationals.
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A spokesman said: “Their way of working made detection by sniffer dogs more difficult.”
The oranges confiscated have been sent to local food banks so they can handed to the poor and needy.
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