They found 152 bundles containing three tonnes of cocaine, Spanish police said in a statement. Spanish police said they launched their investigation after receiving a tip that a "suspicious vessel" was headed to Spain "loaded with cocaine". 'Squalid conditions'Spanish authorities said the submarine had the capacity to transport up to five tonnes of cocaine. In September the US Coast Guard and Colombian navy intercepted a submarine carrying over five tonnes of cocaine off South America. Spain accounted for the second-highest proportion of cocaine seizures in the European Union last year after Belgium, with 41 tonnes apprehended.

Source: The Local November 28, 2019 10:07 UTC