Cocaine worth €151 million found in banana shipment destined for Hungary
Customs officers at the Port of Rotterdam found a massive 2,020 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside a sea container full of bananas. The shipment had arrived from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and was to continue to a company in Hungary, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said.
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NLTimes reported that the street value of this batch of cocaine is more than 151 million EUR. The discovery was made on Saturday during an inspection at the port. Authorities would not identify the firm that was set to receive the shipment and stated that the recipient probably has nothing to do with the smuggling.
The Public Prosecution Service of Rotterdam reported that last weekend another 374 kilograms of cocaine was hidden in a different banana shipment.
Two Rotterdam men who had raised suspicions by their presence at a port terminal were later arrested when they were caught coming out of the container. That shipment was valued at 28 million EUR. The OM on Friday also acknowledged for the first time a separate discovery of cocaine at the Port of Rotterdam dating back to May 20.
In that case, a smaller batch of 37 kilograms of cocaine was found in a shipment of pomegranates.
The fruit had arrived from Lima, Peru and was destined for a company in Germany. Again, the OM said that the company was not believed to be involved with drug trafficking. Bricks of cocaine were packaged and kept inside of duffel bags hidden in the sea container. The Hit-and-Run Cargo Team ran all three drug busts at the Port of Rotterdam.
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Brazilian woman tried to smuggle 3 kgs of cocaine in condoms into Hungary
The 30-year-old woman arrived in Hungary with more than three kilogrammes of cocaine. The airport police are now investigating the case. She arrived at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport on 10 February in the late hours of the night from Brazil.
Source: www.nltimes.nl