Cocaine hidden in cargo of roses at Madrid Airport

Cocaine hidden in cargo of roses at Madrid Airport: "The National Police have made seven arrests in Madrid, Valencia and Murcia after seizing more than 70 kilos of cocaine which had been smuggled into the country inside a shipment of roses sent over by air from Colombia.

In news released on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said the cocaine was found in 60 boxes of roses which arrived at the cargo terminal at Madrid Barajas.

It was the same group which, in 2009, tried to smuggle 800 kilos of the drug into Spain from Colombia dissolved in polypropylene. The cargo was seized from a lorry bound for the Colombian port of Buenaventura before it could be loaded on board a ship which was due to set sail for the for the Spanish port of Valencia.

On Monday this week, Colombian police seized a massive shipment of cocaine from the port in Cartagena which was hidden in a cargo of plastics and would have fetched an estimated 23 million € in Spain if it had reached its destination in Valencia. EFE reports the consignment was the property of the organisation which is led by one of Colombia’s most wanted drug lords, Daniel ‘El Loco Barrera’."

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