This time it was in international seas that the Spanish police intervened to stop the ship Orion 5. This liner in a sorry state was monitored for a long time by the Spanish anti-drug services. This time they had a good catch by forcing her to dock in the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Carrying 1,750 cows bound for Lebanon, the liner, which came from Colombia, also had on board 4.5 tonnes of cocaine, the market value of which is estimated at 105 million euros.
The 28 members of the ship are under arrest, but remained on board the boat to tend to the cows. The white powder was hidden among the bags of animal feed.
The Spanish police assure that drug trafficking from the so-called Atlantic route is currently on the increase. And if in recent weeks, two other liners from Latin America have been arrested off the Canary Islands, a sailboat with 2,500 kilos of cocaine on board and another freighter with 4,500 kilos in the middle of the bag of coffees, many are the other steamers with their edge of cocaine to pass between the nets of the anti-drug police.
