A combined operation of the Tax Agency and the Guardia Civil

• The drugs were found inside 22 wooden compartments in a truck that, according to the documentation, was heading to Perpignan (France).

• The driver has been arrested as the perpetrator of an alleged crime against public health

April 26, 2024.- The Customs Surveillance Service of the Tax Agency, in collaboration with the Civil Guard, has seized in the port of Algeciras (Cádiz) nearly 25,000 kilos of hashish hidden in a truck from Morocco, whose market value could have reached 50 million euros.

The intervention took place in the coastal area, where the truck was marked as suspicious by a Civil Guard officer from the canine group with his drug-detecting dog, after which the inspection of the vehicle began. It was then that the agents opened the trailer of the truck which, according to the documentation presented by the driver, was transporting melons bound for Perpignan.

Inside the trailer, the agents found 22 wooden compartments in which a large quantity of bales of hashish were hidden. Investigators were surprised to find that, however, only a small number of units of the declared legal product were present.

Based on the amount of hashish seized so far, it is estimated that it weighs 25,000 kilos, which would be the largest seizure of this substance by road traffic since 2015, when almost 48 tons of hashish were seized, also in Algeciras and hidden in two trucks.

The truck driver has been arrested as the alleged perpetrator of a crime against public health and has been placed at the disposal of the Judicial Authority.