The Tax Agency seizes 3.7 tonnes of hashish in mouth of the Guadalquivir river

Fight against drug trafficking. The seizure was carried out thanks to three consecutive operations as a result of the special coastal control device carried out by Customs Surveillance in Andalusia.

July 1, 2009. The Tax Agency has seized 3,750 kilograms of hashish in the province of Cadiz in three consecutive operations carried out by Customs Surveillance officials in the last five days.
The first operation began on the night of June 26, when a semi-rigid inflatable boat, about 12 meters long and equipped with three engines, was detected, sailing without lights, at high speed and heading towards the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. It was controlled and monitored by several air and land units of the Tax Agency.
The intervention took place when the drug traffickers began to unload their cargo at a dry dock at the estuary known as 'Bonanza', in the municipality of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, with officials from the Tax Agency intervening simultaneously by sea and air.
The count of the seized drugs shows a weight of 390 kilos of hashish resin, distributed in 13 bales.
The second operation took place in the early hours of June 28 when customs officials spotted another semi-rigid inflatable boat, also about 12 meters long and with three engines, sailing towards the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. At the beginning of the approach to the “Real Fernando” pier, also in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, officials from the Tax Agency intervened. Following the inspection, a total of 76 bales weighing approximately 2,280 kilos of hashish resin were found inside a trailer being pulled by an all-terrain vehicle.
The third operation took place during the early hours of June 30 in Punta Montijano, in the municipality of Chipiona (Cádiz), when Customs Surveillance officers from the Tax Agency boarded a pneumatic boat that was being monitored and, upon noticing the presence of one of the patrol boats, fled, throwing an undetermined number of burlap bundles into the sea. A total of 36 bales weighing approximately 1,080 kilos of hashish resin were recovered from the water.
All operations are still ongoing, so arrests are not ruled out in the coming days. Both the media and the seized drugs are at the disposal of the Sanlúcar de Barrameda Court of Instruction on duty.