FOUR men accused of smuggling cocaine stuffed in fake bananas have been acquitted after Málaga’s provincial court found that police failed to maintain a documented chain of custody of the seized drugs.
The fake bananas containing 162 kilos of white powder were found amidst a shipment of real bananas that arrived from Ecuador to Algeciras port in December 2010, in the culmination of a police investigation that had started in Málaga province earlier that year.
