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Police dismantle cocaine ‘mega lab’ in Spain with 200kg daily capacity
Colombian and Mexican specialists among 18 arrested in operation against ‘sophisticated’ enterprise
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While drug gangs have long exploited the coves and inlets of Galicia’s rugged coastline – a “narco-sub” carrying 3,000kg of cocaine ran aground off Pontevedra in 2019 – the latest intelligence suggests a new tack is being taken and that the kind of labs once seen in South American jungles are now being built in Europe.
“The [latest] operation has revealed the existence of a new trend in cocaine trafficking, in which the unprocessed drug is exported to be chemically processed in clandestine laboratories in its destination countries,” police said.
“This allows the criminal organisations to reduce their losses in the event of possible police seizures.”