| A Morroccan man travelling to Belgium with his wife and children was arrested after police recovered his stolen van that was found to contain 778kg of hashish.
The van owner called the Guardia Civil after a gang of four men posing as police officers forced him and his family out of the vehicle at a service station in Adra (Almería).
It was recovered near Castell de Ferro (Granada) within half an hour, being driven by a 71-year-old man with a history of drug-related convictions, who claimed that he was being paid to drive it to Málaga and that he knew nothing about the drugs in the back.
CCTV footage taken at the service station confirmed that the drugs were already in the van when it was stolen, and it later emerged that the owner was being paid to transport the consignment by a contact in Belgium, who has also been arrested. |
