Spanish authorities informed that they have captured hashish worth about 20 million euros ($22 million) from a container ship that allegedly was smuggling the drug from North Africa to the eastern Mediterranean.
As the Spanish government stated on June 18, an aircraft noticed numerous semi-rigid boats, which North African drug-runners often use, around the Moldova-flagged ship ELG.
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After spotting the boats, agents boarded the ship and discovered over 10 metric tons of hashish in the hold. As a result, six Ukrainian crew members were arrested.
The seizure of the drugs and the arrest of the crew is a result of a six-months tracking by the authorities.
Finally, officials report that a large amount of hashish travels from near the Strait of Gibraltar to eastern Mediterranean.
