Spanish Police Confiscate 4 Tons Of Cocaine Hidden In Rice Sack

Pelabuhan kemas Barcelona Spanyol/UNSPLASH/Olga Subach

JAKARTA - Spanish police confiscated four tons of cocaine hidden in sacks of rice at Barcelona port.

Drug smugglers treated drugs into powder in Asuncion, Paraguay, and then put them in plastic bags hidden in sacks of rice that were sewn with hands before sending them to Europe.

Reported by Reuters on Friday, July 26, the containers arrived at Barcelona port earlier this year but a new cocaine catch was discovered in July when smugglers moved the containers, police said.

Authorities in Paraguay and Britain seized five tonnes of cocaine smuggled by the same criminal organization in two different raids in recent months.

Three tonnes of cocaine were seized in Paraguay before the drugs could be shipped to Belgium in October 2023, while in March, British police seized two tonnes of cocaine at Southampton port heading to the Spanish company under investigation, based in Toledo.