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51 kilos of cocaine smuggled into Basque Country inside surfboards
11/15/2011
Anti-drugs officers discovered between five and six kilos of highly-pure cocaine hidden inside a total of nine apparently used surfboards.
Less than a month after Basque police busted a drugs-ring exporting cocaine into Bilbao in the form of Manolo Blahniks, another operation has uncovered a similar plan.
This time the traffickers, three Italian men, smuggled 51 kilos of cocaine to Bilbao’s Loiu airport hidden inside surfboards.
Nine surfboards were seized in total and the three men were arrested at the moment they went to collect their carefully wrapped cargo at Loiu airport, to where they had flown from Chile.
Taking the cargo apart, an anti-drugs investigation team discovered between 5-6 kilos of highly-pure cocaine stuffed in the central hollow of each surfboard.
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