--- title: Spanish police seize narco-submarine in Malaga raid description: Police in Spain have seized a homemade submarine capable of transporting up to two tonnes of drugs. image: https://channel16.dryadglobal.com/hubfs/Narco-Submarine.png --- ###### 1 min read # Spanish police seize narco-submarine in Malaga raid By: [ Dryad Global ](https://channel16.dryadglobal.com/archive/author/dryad-global) on March 18, 2021 at 8:00 AM [Drug smuggling](https://channel16.dryadglobal.com/archive/tag/drug-smuggling) - [**](https://twitter.com/GlobalDryad) - [**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dryad-global/) - [**](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZSIjPkeq7iDcsj4r9TF9mg?sub_confirmation=1) ![Featured Image](https://channel16.dryadglobal.com/hubfs/Narco-Submarine.png) **Police in Spain have seized a homemade submarine capable of transporting up to two tonnes of drugs.** **![Narco-Submarine](https://channel16.dryadglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Narco-Submarine.png?width=601&name=Narco-Submarine.png)** The nine-metre (29.5ft) blue vessel was discovered in an industrial warehouse in the southern city of Málaga. The seizure was part of a wider operation involving five other nations and the EU's crime agency Europol. The police say 52 people were detained during raids across Spain, and a big haul of cocaine and hashish seized. A drugs lab was also dismantled. Police believe the fibreglass and plywood submarine was being readied to smuggle drugs but had not yet been used. In 2019, [a submarine loaded with more than 2,000kg (4,409lb) of cocaine was seized in north-western Spain after the vessel ran aground.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50539006) Two people were detained. That submarine was believed to be from Colombia, and police launched an investigation to establish it sailed all the way with the drugs. Narco-subs have been used to smuggle drugs from Latin America into the US. 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