Spanish authorities have found cocaine hidden in the engine room of a Besiktas Group capesize.

The 169,000-dwt Besiktas Kazakhstan (built 2010) was searched on 5 July at Carboneras after arriving with a coal cargo on 10 June, the Diario Cordoba reported.

About 43kg of the drug was found hidden in a ballast tank.

The vessel is thought to have come from Colombia.

It has now been offloaded and left the port on 12 July, sailing west in the Atlantic.

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