About 7,900 kilos of cocaine, with a street value of more than 200 million euro, has been found in a container in the port of Antwerp. The drugs were hidden between a shipment of bananas from Ecuador. Four people have been arrested by in the northern Dutch municipality of Emmeloord in connection with the illegal shipment.
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Almost 8,000 kilos of cocaine discovered among bananas at the port of Antwerp
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The investigation that led to the discovery of the drugs was led by the Belgian-Dutch Quick Response Unit of the Fortius Cocaine Streams Taskforce. Last week work done by the unit led to the arrest of a man from the Dutch city of Eindhoven. He is suspected of having tried to import a 600-kilo consignment of cocaine from Colombia through the port of Antwerp.
"With the interception of these two consignments, Fortius has dealt a serious blow to organised crime. Fortius has prevented these shipments from entering the market”, Fortius said in a statement.
The anti-drugs taskforce focuses on tackling the large-scale import of cocaine via the port of Antwerp to the Netherlands. It brings together police, prosecutors, customs, and other services from both Belgium and The Netherlands.