A Colombian man was detained at Barcelona's international airport after half a kilo of cocaine was found hidden under an over-sized toupee, Spanish police said on Tuesday.
Arriving on a flight from Bogota, the man attracted police attention as he looked nervous and had a disproportionately large hairpiece under his hat.
They found a package stuck to his head with about €30,000 (£27,000) of cocaine.
"There is no limit to the inventiveness of drug traffickers trying to mock controls," said the police statement.
The statement enclosed a photo of a middle-aged man - apparently still wearing the toupee though with his eyes blocked in the image - but gave no more details of his identity.
They cited recent cases in which smugglers had tried to bring drugs into Europe inside hollowed-out pineapples, breast implants and a wheelchair cushion.
In 2018, Spanish customs police seized more than 100 kilograms of cocaine at Barcelona-El Prat airport.
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