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Spanish police clean up Canary Islands waste-smuggling ring

Published 29/06/2020, 14:50
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MADRID, June 29 (Reuters) - Spanish police on Monday said
they had broken up a criminal organization that illegally
shipped 2,500 tonnes of toxic waste from the Canary Islands all
over West Africa.
Some 34 people were arrested on the islands of Tenerife and
Gran Canaria as part of a joint operation with Europol, the
Civil Guard police force said in a statement.
Over the past two years, the group dispatched 138 shipments,
from discarded car engines to household goods, in breach of
local and international laws, according to the police.
Electronic goods such as old monitors and computer parts
made up around a third of the cargoes, the police said.
Such devices can contain noxious substances like lead,
mercury and arsenic, which can be damaging to human health and
the environment if not handled correctly.
Among those detained was a 62-year old Italian woman whose
trading business allegedly provided forged customs documents and
fake certificates of operation for some of the exported goods,
the statement said.
Nigeria was the main recipient of the shipments, though
containers were sent to at least seven other countries, where
third parties sold on the contents.

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