Guardia Civil arrest 30 for trafficking marijuana disguised as Ukraine humanitarian aid/ Photo: Guardia Civil
Spanish police have arrested 30 people involved in trafficking large amounts of marijuana in packages disguised as humanitarian aid destined for Ukraine.
The Spanish Guardia Civil seized more than 100 kilograms of cannabis in two vans purporting to be transporting supplies to the war-torn Eastern European country, following investigations across Andalusia.
The criminal gang – comprised of Ukrainian, German, Spanish and Moroccan nationals – was said to have operated across Spain’s Costa del Sol and transported drugs across Europe.
Investigators in the Spanish Guardia Civil detected a group of Ukrainian citizens suspected of selling marijuana across the continent.
Members of the organization were said to have collected the pre-packaged marijuana before storing it in an apartment in the town of Mijas, in the Málaga province on the Costa del Sol.
Following investigations, officers discovered two Ukrainian-registered vans in the town of Fuengirola containing 109 kilograms of vacuum-packed marijuana packages in cardboard boxes.
The boxes containing the drugs were said to have been ‘camouflaged’ as ‘supplies and humanitarian aid destined for Ukraine’.
Officers arrested the four occupants of the vans on charges of drug trafficking and later conducted 11 house searches across the…
