ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – During a customs inspection at a container company in Rotterdam, 175 kilos of cocaine were discovered hidden in a banana shipment.
The Dutch Public Prosecution Service reports that the container where the drugs were found was recently discharged from a vessel that came from Colombia. The banana boxes were packed full of cocaine. The Prosecution believes that the drug trafficker’s goal was to return to the container and retrieve the drugs later.
The cocaine had a street value of about €6 million, which is roughly $7.77 million. Since its discovery, all of the cocaine has been destroyed.
AD.nl reports that no arrests have been made so far. Currently, the HARC team, a partnership between Customs, IRS, Port Police and the Public Prosecutor are investigating.
