Spanish police said on Sunday they had smashed a Nigerian ring that smuggled cocaine and other drugs into Spain and the rest of Europe from Latin America and Africa, arresting 15 people, Agence France Presse reports.


The group, based in the Madrid suburb of Alcala de Henares, use drug mules who injest pellets filled with drugs and avoid detection at airports, the police said in a statement.


Police seized about 18 pounds of cocaine and 17,000 euros in cash as part of their investigation, which began in September 2011.


The majority of those arrested were Nigerian citizens.


Police carried out their first arrest as part of the operation in October 2011 at the airport at Palma de Majorca of a man who had swallowed 77 pellets of cocaine.


Later that month police detained another man at the same airport who had swallowed 68 pellets of cocaine.


"These people had been sent by the organisation to Madrid to collect cocaine from other members of the ring which based in Alcala de Henares. From there they would also send mules to South America and Africa to collect the drug," a police statement said.


Spain's proximity to north Africa, a key source of hashish, and its close ties with its former colonies in Latin America, a major cocaine producing region, have made it a major gateway into Europe for drug traffickers.

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This thread won't get much traffic, because the OP failed to list the surnames of the culprits, for the posters to decipher if they're Igbo or Yoruba.

Ejiné: This thread won't get much traffic, because the OP failed to list the surnames of the culprits, for the posters to decipher if they're Igbo or Yoruba.

Funny but true.

I wish people can just condemn what is wrong and encourage others to always do the right thing irrespective of the ethnicity of the offenders.

as we can all see by the article, they called them NIGERIANS..........so, whether Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa is irrelevant, and may they all rot in jail!!!!!!

Nigeria, dirty nation filthy people.

Tomorrow some will open their filthy mouths to say Nigerians are languishing in foreign jails for nothing.
Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!!!

''No they arrested them cos they re blacks, Spanish people hate blacks, i don't know why Nigerians travel to spain self, 9ja get anything you can think of, if not for bad govt,wetin 9ja go fin go Spain for?''

Serious.