Spain busts major drug ring - 44 detained
Spanish police have smashed one of the country's biggest drug rings, detaining 44 people, police said Friday.
Eleven others were also indicted. The suspects included 34 Spaniards, 13 Moroccans as well as people from France, the Netherlands, Gibraltar and the Palestinian territories.
The arrests were made in southern Spain and in the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the Moroccan coast.
Police seized two boats and four personal water craft which had been used for transporting hashish from Morocco, as well as 3 tons of hashish and 3 kilograms of cocaine.
The gang smuggled drugs from southern Spain to other European Union countries. Its members had bought properties in their countries and shopped for designer clothes and jewellery in Paris, police said.
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