18 May, 2020 @ 15:42
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SNIFFED OUT: Drug gang of eight people who hid weed and hash in cases of garlic arrested on Spain’s Costa del Sol and in Cordoba

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POLICE have sniffed out a drugs smuggling gang who hid cannabis in shipments of garlic.

Officers arrested eight people, based in Cordoba and Benalmadena and led by a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin.

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STENCH: The pungent smell of garlic failed to throw police off the scent

They stashed the illicit substances in cases of the vegetable, which were then sent from two warehouses in Cordoba to the Netherlands.

Guardia Civil officers got a whiff that something illegal was going on when Dutch law enforcement seized 2,800 kilos of hashish and 157 kilos of marijuana in two operations in June 2019.

Intelligence was passed on to Spain where police launched an investigation.

It was not long before police traced the scent of the criminals and started a surveillance operation, codenamed Garlicor.

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HAUL: A total of 175 kilos of hashish and 61 kilos of marijuana were seized

The trail led investigators to two rented storage units in Cordoba and a property in Benalmadena on the Costa del Sol.

During the two raids police seized 175 kilos of hashish and 61 kilos of marijuana, €4,970 in cash and three vehicles.

Police arrested eight people of Spanish, Dutch and Moroccan origin.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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