€75 million worth of cocaine seized in San Roque

COCAINE with a street value of over €75 million has been seized in San Roque.

Guardia Civil made the discovery after members of the public alerted them to four large bags lying in a scrapheap.

The bags were found to contain 198kg of cocaine divided between packages wrapped in duct tape.

The illegal substance had been smuggled into Algeciras in a shipping container from Puerto Africa in Chile, bundled in with scrap steel.

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