Spanish police have broken up an international gang that smuggled cocaine into Europe from Colombia by impregnating it into the cardboard used in boxes carrying pineapples and limes, and then sending chemists to extract it.
Cardboard boxes for legal shipments of pineapples and limes from Colombia were impregnated with cocaine between the layers of paper when the boxes were manufactured.
“Small quantities of the drug – never more than 100g – were placed in each box and later extracted by complicated chemical processes in the gang’s own laboratories,” Spanish police said.
“The gang’s chemists were then sent from Colombia to Spain, where they stayed until they were dispatched to Bulgaria and the Netherlands, where they set about extracting the cocaine. Once their job was done, they returned to Spain and then to Colombia.” The cocaine was distributed throughout Europe.
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