Three people arrested after seizure of drug disguised as charcoal in northern region of Castilla y León
Spanish police have arrested three people after breaking up a ring that allegedly smuggled hundreds of kilos of cocaine into Europe by disguising it as charcoal and ridding the drug of its telltale scent to render it undetectable to sniffer dogs.
Officers from Spain’s national police and Portugal’s judicial police began investigating at the beginning of 2020 after noticing that a trading company was using a variety of front organisations to carry out suspicious imports that didn’t tally with their supposed business operations.
