Police seize £55,000,000 cannabis haul in ‘biggest raid ever’

Spanish police have hailed the takedown of a complicated drug operation (Image: Reuters)

Police have seized what they declare is the largest haul of ready-for-market hashish ever recognized in Europe.

Drug cops in Spain impounded an astonishing 32 tonnes of the plant after a raid which noticed 20 individuals arrested.

The medicine, which had been packaged and able to be offered, would have fetched greater than £55 million had they made it onto the road market. 

Officers focused a sequence of farms and manufacturing crops throughout the nation in an operation known as ‘Gardens’.

9 males and 11 girls aged between 20 and 59 had been held and a couple of hundreds of thousands crops had been seized.

It’s believed the dried, packed merchandise would have been offered domestically or shipped throughout Europe.

Authorities mentioned the huge operation went to the center of a posh operation with a number of layers and groups.

Police arrested 20 individuals in simultaneous raids throughout Spain (Image: Reuters)

The gang had been detained in Toledo, Ciudad Actual, Valencia and Asturias final month however particulars of the operation had been made solely public on Saturday.

Spain’s Civil Guard mentioned in an announcement: ‘The Civil Guard has seized the most important cache of packaged marijuana discovered to date.

‘It was equal to roughly 1.1 million crops.’

Dependable statistics are arduous to acquire however the raid seems to be one of the vital important in fashionable legislation enforcement historical past.

Spanish police seized a extra invaluable haul final yr price greater than £80 million nevertheless it was constituted of lower than half the variety of crops.

Raids in North America dwarf European operations – in 2010, police seized 95 tonnes of hashish within the Tijuana space of Mexico after a gunfight.

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