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Video | Police smash trafficking gang that smuggled drugs into Spain through Malaga
ALVARO FRÍAS / JUAN CANO
The Guardia Civil have broken up a drug trafficking gang that smuggled hashish into Spain through the Port of Malaga. The police explained that the drugs were hidden in lorries that covered a commercial route to Melilla. Operation Kemel began in ... February last year when the Guardia Civil intercepted a refrigerated lorry loaded with 330 kilogrammes of hashish in Malaga and arrested its driver. Their investigations uncovered a gang of drug traffickers that used a transport company as a cover. ... Spices and condiments were sent, under a legal guise, from Malaga to a company in Melilla. But when the lorry returned empty by sea to the Port of Malaga the drugs were hidden in secret compartment under the vehicle’s floor. Once the hashish reached the