MADRID: Spanish police said Wednesday they had seized 20 tons of cannabis hidden in refrigerated trucks carrying peppers from Morocco.
Officers stopped a truck carrying 12 tons of cannabis resin in false compartments behind boxes of green peppers in the southern province of Cadiz on October 21, Spain’s National Police said in a statement.
Three days later, a second truck carrying eight tons of the drug was intercepted near the city of Granada.
Both vehicles had arrived at the port of Algeciras from Tangier.
Twenty people were arrested and jailed on charges of drug trafficking and organized crime.
