BILLION EUROS OF COCAINE BOUND FOR THE COSTA BLANCA | Costa Blanca | Leader Newspaper - News, Sport, Advertising, Property, Classifieds - Costa Blanca, Costa del Sol, Costa Calida, Costa de Almeria, Spain: "total of two-and-a-half tonnes of the Class A drug was found in a warehouse near Gambia's capital of Banju after a joint investigation by Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and Gambian authorities plus a significant amount of money was seized, along with 85 sacks of cocaine. The cocaine was discovered over a weekend behind a false wall at the warehouse basement, it emerged last week and an undisclosed number of empty sacks believed to have contained cocaine were found at the warehouse.
West Africa has become a major transit point for Latin American narcotics as smugglers take advantage of the region's poverty and weak surveillance by authorities to ferry drugs into southern Europe. After initial arrests were made in connection with the drugs trade in mid-May, Gambian police enlisted the help of Soca. A spokesman said: 'The Gambian authorities already had a grasp on this case. We were merely called in as a support role for them and provided them with forensic assistance and advised them. We were closely monitoring the warehouse where the stash was found for some time and assisted the police after they had already identified the place as suspicious.
Often referred to as the British FBI, Soca is an intelligence-led agency often called in to assist by anti-crime authorities around the world. Those arrested before and during the raid included Latin Americans, Africans and Europeans, a security source said."
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