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Five arrested in cocaine bust off Spain’s Canary Islands
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5 folks had been arrested when a fishing boat carrying practically three tonnes of cocaine was intercepted off the Canary Islands, Spanish police stated.
The AKT 1 was stopped on April 13 by a Spanish coastguard patrol about 300 nautical miles south of the Spanish archipelago because it tried to cross itself off as one other fishing boat.
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Spanish police seized 2.9 tonnes of cocaine, estimated to have a road worth of 72 million euros ($77.80 million), which had been hidden in one of many gasoline tanks.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivers an announcement on the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain
(AP Photograph/Andrea Comas)
The boat was returned to Gran Canaria on Saturday and the 5 detainees had been remanded in custody in Las Palmas.
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“After we boarded, (officers) noticed the fishing boat was transporting a big variety of bundles normally used for cocaine trafficking, so the 5 crew members of the boat – 4 of Turkish nationality and a Georgian citizen – had been instantly arrested,” a spokesman for the Spanish Civil Guard stated.
($1 = 0.9254 euros)