Spain busts criminal ring shipping hazardous waste to Ghana
Saturday, 9 August 2025 () Madrid (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
Spanish police have broken up a criminal network accused of illegally exporting hazardous waste to Ghana, authorities said Friday. Three people were arrested in Seville and a fourth investigated in Murcia after officers intercepted a container at the port of Algeciras holding 19 tonnes of vehicle engines, fuel tanks with gasoline residue and other oil-soaked waste, the regional government of