Seven people have been arrested and 814 kilos of cocaine have been seized in the false bottom of a truck. The drugs were loaded in Argentina onto a truck that appeared to have taken part in the Paris-Dakar Rally. The Argentine Federal Police and Customs collaborated in the operation.

Agents from the GRECO of Ibiza and the UDYCO of the Catalan Police Headquarters together with Customs Surveillance agents from the Tax Agency of Catalonia and the Basque Country have dismantled an international organized group dedicated to cocaine trafficking. Seven people have been arrested and 814 kg seized. of cocaine.

The operation began in 2009 when investigations by the National Police Corps revealed the possible introduction of a significant amount of cocaine hidden in the false bottom of a truck.

In order to avoid possible customs controls, they used a rally truck, screen-printed with advertising and logos of the Paris Dakar Rally, to pass itself off as a vehicle belonging to the organisation.

The truck left Bilbao at the beginning of January to coincide with the sporting event and take advantage of the opportunity to hide the cocaine in the holes specially made in the floor of the trailer.

It is from that moment that the Spanish and Argentine Customs put their control systems into operation, to detect the departure of the truck from Argentina and its return to the port of Bilbao.

The truck finally arrived at the port of Bilbao on April 9, 2010, and after confirming the existence of the cocaine with the Customs container scanner, arrests began at the ports of Bilbao, Ibiza and Barcelona.