The Guardian report..
Spanish police have arrested two suspected drug dealers who were raffling off a Christmas basket containing cocaine, hashish, alcohol and a leg of cured ham, they said on Tuesday.
Officers discovered the unusual lottery when they raided a drug den allegedly operated by the two men, a Spaniard and an Argentinian, in the eastern city of Murcia, the police said in a statement, without adding when the arrests took place.
On the wall they found a list of clients taking part in two raffles to win a “narco-basket”, one on Christmas Day and the other on Epiphany on 6 January, a major holiday in Spain, it added.
“The basket … included cocaine, hashish, tobacco, cash and even an eight-kilo cured ham,” police said.
Tickets cost €5 for the Christmas lottery and €10 for the second draw, according to pictures released by police of handwritten signs found on the walls of the drug den.
