The Italian police in the port of Genoa, more than two tonnes of pure cocaine seized, worth approximately 500 million euros. It comes to the largest drugsvangst of the past 25 years, says the police. The Italian authorities switched the drugs with the salt and let the cargo go to Barcelona, where the receiver was picked up.
The drugs were on January 23, discovered and were distributed over 60 bags in a container were aboard a ship from Colombia. It went to a total of 1.801 packages, good for the largest drugsvangst in 25 years in Italy.
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The boat was in Genoa docked for a stopover and would normally continue to head to the Spanish Barcelona, where the drugs would be unloaded to be distributed on the European market. That also happened, but not after the Italian drugsbrigade the load-swapped with something onschuldigere salt. In the Catalan city was a 59-year-old Spaniard was arrested when he made the charge came to pick up. To The Guardian tells Maurizio Cintura, lieutenant of the Italian Guardia di Finanza, that the drugs in four hours time by 40 soldiers was changed. The Italians also place gps receivers in a number of pockets. Then he told the ship to leave again in the direction of Barcelona.
Yesterday was announced by the Italian police also have a big drugsvangst, this time in the port of Livorno, in Tuscany. There was more than 640 kg of cocaine with a value of around 130 million euros were seized.
