Spanish police bust heroin ring - Monsters and Critics

Spanish police bust heroin ring - Monsters and Critics: "Spanish police claim to have dismantled a heroin smuggling ring in one of their biggest such swoops in the recent years, they said Monday.
Police detained 10 people, including the suspected ring leader who is believed to have coordinated its operations from Madrid.
Most of the suspected ring members were based on Gran Canaria island.
The ring had contacts in opium-producing countries in the Middle East, in transit countries countries in West Africa, in countries where heroin was stored such as the Netherlands, and in Portugal, where some of the drug couriers came from, police said.
Police seized about 30 kilogrammes of heroin in the north-eastern region of Catalonia and in the Canary Islands"