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Nascent Drama

1 hour, 7 minutes ago

MADRID (AFP) -

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AFP/File Photo: A photographer takes
pictures of a shipment of cocaine that
was intercepted in northwestern Spain...
 
Police in the southern Spanish city of Seville have been left red-faced after more than 100 kilos of drugs were stolen from police headquarters and replaced with talcum powder, a spokesman said Friday.
 
The missing drugs, amounting to 95 percent of the cocaine seized in police operations, would be worth about five million euros (7.9 million dollars) on the black market, the secretary general of the police union, Manuel Espino, told AFP.
 
According to the newspaper El Pais, the keys were usually kept by the head of Seville's organised crime unit, although he sometimes handed them over to other officers.
 
Contacted by AFP, Seville police would only confirm that narcotics stored at the police station had "gone missing" and that the internal affairs department had begun an inquiry.
 
"We always carry out a final analysis of seized substances before they are destroyed," said Espino. "This revealed that the substance was not drugs but a harmless material resembling the drug, like talcum powder."
 
A British millionaire businessman has put the details of his divorce agreement online to silence critics who he said have accused him of being greedy and ruthless.
 
Gary Dean, 47, said he had had enough of "tittle-tattle" about his split from his wife Helen and wanted to set the record straight by revealing details of the 3.7-million-pound (7.38-million-dollar, 4.65-million-euro) settlement.
 
"Over the course of the last year... I have been subject to gossip about my divorce, some of it just silly tittle-tattle, and some of it malicious," he said on the website, headed "The Truth About Helen Louise Dean v Gary Dean."
 
"Much of this is circulated and perpetuated by people who haven't got a bloody clue of what the truth is. They are just making wild guesses... It's a bad case of Chinese Whispers."
 
The couple, who lived with their four children in an affluent area in the county of Lancashire, northwest England, reached a divorce agreement in court last July after 19 years of marriage.
 
Details of settlements made in the family courts, which sit behind closed doors with press and public excluded, are normally kept secret unless the deal is contested by one of the parties.
 
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