German Customs Seizes Record $1 Billion Worth of Cocaine
German customs seized more than $1 billion worth of cocaine in a container shipped from Uruguay, according to an Aug. 1 Associated Press report. The drugs, about 5 tons, were seized in mid-July, when customs officers checked a container listed…
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as soya beans that was en route from Montevideo to Antwerp, Belgium, the report said. The container held black sports bags with more than 4,000 packets of cocaine in 211 bags, the report said, which was Germany’s biggest cocaine single seizure of cocaine to date.