Police from Uruguay, Spain, Portugal and Italy have broken up a drug ring that smuggled Cocaine Hidden inside surfboards from South America to Europe. Three Italian citizens have been arrested, two in Portugal and one in Italy. Authorities seized 90 pounds of cocaine from five of the surfboards, while the sixth was allowed to pass through so that European authorities could track its recipient. The operation, named Iris, was described as unprecedented in Uruguay because of the level of international co-operation involved.

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