Madrid.– Spain’s Revenue Service and Civil Guard seized 1.3 tons of cocaine that arrived in the customs area of the port in the eastern city of Valencia hidden in the false bottom of a container shipped from the Dominican Republic, officials said.

According to press reports, one person was arrested in Valencia and a second suspect apparently waiting for the cocaine was detained in Barcelona province. The cocaine was aboard the Nordsea, a Cypriot-flagged ship that arrived in Valencia on Feb. 23 from the Dominican Republic.

The operation was launched in the wake of an investigation of cocaine shipments in containers sent to the port of Valencia.

A review of information gathered in the case led investigators to a container that arrived from the Dominican Republic and was bound for a company in Madrid. The container fit "a high-risk profile" for drug trafficking, investigators said.