Spanish authorities discovered 9.4 tons of cocaine in the port of Algeciras (southern Spain) during a raid named "NANO" on Wednesday. The drug packages were disguised as "Louis Vuitton," "Tesla," "Tag Heuer," "Hitler," or adorned with swastikas, and hidden in a refrigerated overseas container among 1080 crates of bananas.
The investigators sorted the 9436 cocaine packages by logos.
The officers were astonished when they ended up with 9436 packages on their seizure tables.
Spanish authorities exhibited the cocaine packages for a press conference.
The luxury labels and swastikas on the cocaine blocks are said to be identifying marks of European criminal organizations to which the cocaine was intended to be delivered. More than 30 different logos were found.
The labeled drug packages were hidden among bananas.
"This operation was an unprecedented blow to one of the world's most important criminal organizations involved in cocaine distribution, whose recipients were the leading criminal networks in Europe," the Spanish Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The name of the Nazi mass murderer was also written on some packages.
The investigations into Operation "NANO" began in July. The investigators had come across a criminal organization that apparently smuggles drugs on a large scale from South America to Europe.
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