Spanish Police Arrest 10 in Drug Raid

 Spanish Police Arrest 10 in Drug Raid: "Spanish police arrested 10 people, among them two Spanish businessmen and four Colombian citizens, after detecting “a test shipment” of 60 kilos of cocaine hidden in a load of exotic wood from South America, the National Police Administration and Civil Guard said Sunday.

The arrest of the Spanish businessmen, who are from the northeastern region of Catalonia, came within the framework of so-called “Operation Iroco” when investigators verified that they supposedly had placed their company at the disposal of a network of drug traffickers “to provide cover for the illicit shipment.”

This is the eighth big anti-drug operation mounted so far this year, a series of busts that have resulted in the arrests of 66 people and the seizure of more than four tons of drugs, mainly cocaine and hashish.

Operation Iroco was begun in May 2010 when the internal advisory department within Spain’s embassy in Colombia alerted the authorities that traffickers were using wood exports to ship cocaine."

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