Ecuadorian police have seized around 8.8 tonnes of cocaine worth $330m that were stashed in a container of bananas bound for Belgium, the police of the port city of Guayaquil announced on Sunday.
“It is a record seizure for 2023 of more than
eight tons of cocaine,” police commander General Fausto Salinas wrote on his
Twitter account.
“We prevented (the international sale of) 90
million doses, worth $330 million in Europe,” he estimated, releasing a video
showing police searching the container.
Located between Colombia and Peru – the
world’s top cocaine producers – Ecuador seized a record amount of the drug in
2021: about 210 tonnes bound for European ports.
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