WARSAW (Reuters) - Police have seized more than 1,000 kg of hashish and arrested 23 people in a joint operation in Spain, Poland, Denmark and France targeting a drug smuggling gang, Polish and Spanish police said on Friday.
The gang leaders were arrested in raids co-ordinated by the European Union's law enforcement agency Europol in the southern Spanish towns of Marbella, Estepona and Lebrija, police said. Among those arrested were 12 Poles, seven Spaniards and two Ukrainians."At the start we thought the gang operated only in Spain, but later it turned out they were active across Europe with the drugs being delivered to Scandinavia and Britain among others," Jaroslaw Szymczyk, the head of Polish police, told a news conference.
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