Italian financial police and customs officials seized more than 770 kilograms in the port of Vado Ligure cocaine, hidden in a shipment of bananas that arrived from Ecuador, as stated on the website of the Italian financial police.
As announced, members of the Financial Police in Savona, in cooperation with colleagues from Genoa and officials of the Customs and Monopolies Administration, found 650 packages of narcotics in a refrigerated container.
A quick analysis carried out during the control showed that it was cocaine of exceptional purity.
The drugs were hidden among dozens of pallets of bananas in a container that arrived from one of Ecuador's main ports.
It is visible on a certain number of packages flag of Serbia, shows a video released by the Italian Financial Police.
Italian services state that the seizure is the result of increased controls on trade routes connecting South America with the port of Vado Ligure, which is becoming an increasingly important hub for trade flows to Europe, but also increasingly attractive for organizing illegal activities.
Source: H1
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