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AUTHORITIES have smashed a drug-trafficking gang that hired ‘mules’ to collect cocaine shipments from Madrid airport. The criminals paid vulnerable people up €10,000 each and gave them a low-cost plane ticket to access the airport’s luggage area. The ‘mules’ would then pick up suitcases crammed with drugs off conveyor belts and pass them onto waiting gang members outside the airport. …

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