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Dutch customs finds cocaine worth millions
Dutch customs investigators have found around 500 kilograms of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam. (Symbolic image) photo
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Dutch customs investigators have found around 500 kilograms of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam. The drugs had a sales value of around 37.5 million euros, the public prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday evening in Rotterdam. They were reportedly packed in bags and hidden in barrels of jam. The cocaine has now been destroyed.
Dutch customs investigators have found around 500 kilograms of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam. The drugs had a sales value of around 37.5 million euros, the public prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday evening in Rotterdam. They were reportedly packed in bags and hidden in barrels of jam. The Cocaine has now been destroyed.
The container came from Colombia and the cargo was to be delivered to a Dutch company. But that probably had nothing to do with drug smuggling, the public prosecutor explained. The port of Rotterdam is one of the main ports of entry for cocaine in Europe.
Announcement from the public prosecutor’s office