A record large cocaine consignment was intercepted in Malta, reports Reuters citing local customs data.
As noted, a consignment of cocaine from Ecuador and Colombia was discovered on the evening of December 9. According to customs, 510 parcels of the drug were seized – a record for one seizure from one container. Each of the packages weighed 1.2 kilograms, the total weight of the batch was over 600 kilograms. Its cost is estimated at 70 million euros.
For comparison, the customs cited the example of 2019. According to her, over the entire last year, 750 kilograms of drugs were found in 16 containers. Their total cost was 84.5 million euros.
It is reported that from the port of Malta the cargo was supposed to go to Libya. The police have opened an investigation into this case.
In early November it was reported that the Belgian police found the largest a consignment of drugs among all that came from other countries of the world – cocaine with a total value of about 900 million euros.