Two Poles detained in Malaga, southern Spain, in 2007, on charges of drug trafficking and crimes committed against social welfare will face over 23 years in prison. The Poles were sentenced in Spanish courts today.

The convicts will also have to pay penalties - the first of them amounting to 750,000 euro and the second 150,000 euro.

The Polish drug dealers, who headed a gang, were detained within the so-called ‘Scorpio action,’ when police rooted out the main amphetamine distribution plant on Costa del Sol, southern Spain in 2007. 

The men were found to have in their car a bag with 10,000 ecstasy pills. When the men’s homes were searched for drugs, it turned out there were some 60,000 more pills there.

The Poles also frequented public houses, where they established connections with other drug traffickers. Their cars, stolen in other European countries, had forged license plates. (is)