BUSTED

ROTTEN: Drugs hidden in fruit

POLICE brought in a huge haul of 6.5 tonnes of cocaine stashed amongst a shipment of bananas in the port at Algeciras with a market value of €233 million.

They also managed to make 13 arrests including high-ranking kingpins after the search of several homes in Algeciras, Malaga and Castellar de la Frontera.

Raids in two industrial warehouses in Algeciras and Antequera also garnered around €1.5 mil- lion in cash and various cars, along with highend watches. The operation began last October 2022 when investigators detected a criminal organization, whose Malaga-based leader was regarded as one of Spain's main cocaine traffickers. One of his key associates was a member of a well-known family in Castellar de la Frontera who used a frozen fish company in Algeciras to launder the money from the illicit activity.