Dutch customs found 1.5 tons of cocaine in a container filled with bananas in the port of Vlissingen. The drugs, which have a street value of around 110 million euros, have already been destroyed, the public prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Investigations had put the detectives on the trail of the drug delivery. The container had already been unloaded from the ship when customs officials struck. The port police are trying to find out who is behind the smuggling.
Drugs came from Ecuador
The containers were destined for a company in the coastal town that had nothing to do with the smuggling, the public prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday evening. The drugs had been brought in from Ecuador via the port of Antwerp.
Drug imports via the Dutch ports of Rotterdam and Vlissingen and nearby Antwerp in Belgium have increased dramatically in recent times. Last year, customs investigators from both countries seized a total of about 160 tons of cocaine in the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp alone.
Source: Krone
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