Italy: $880 million worth of cocaine seized in a shipment of bananas
Italy: $880 million worth of cocaine seized in a shipment of bananas
Italy: $880 million worth of cocaine seized in a shipment of bananas
Police in southern Italy have seized cocaine worth $880 million hidden in two refrigerated containers containing a shipment of bananas at the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria.
Police said today (Tuesday) that the shipment came from Guayaquil in Ecuador and was on its way to Armenia via the Black Sea port of Batumi in Georgia.
And she pointed out that the narcotic substances were detected thanks to specialized scanners and with the help of a police dog named “Joel”, noting that she had found another 600 kilograms of cocaine in the past few days in containers of fruits coming from Ecuador, and was destined for Italy, Croatia, Greece and Georgia.
It is noteworthy that Calabria is home to the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, which replaced the Cosa Nostra gang in Sicily as the most powerful mafia organization in Italy and plays a pivotal role in the drug trade.
