Spanish police have arrested 18 people after dismantling the largest cocaine lab in Europe, a highly sophisticated, multinational facility where teams of Colombian and Mexican experts worked around the clock to produce up to 200kg (440lbs) of the drug a day.
Officers from Spain’s Policía Nacional force, working with counterparts from Portugal and Colombia, also seized 1,300kg of cocaine base paste and 151kg of processed cocaine after discovering the “mega-lab” in the north-west region of Galicia and making a series of arrests across the mainland and on the island of Gran Canaria.
