23 tonnes seized in Europe's biggest-ever cocaine bust

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European customs officials and police seize more than 23 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated value of $900 million in shipments sent to Germany and Belgium from Paraguay and Panama.

European customs officials and police have seized more than 23 tonnes of cocaine contained in shipments to Germany and Belgium in then continent's largest-ever cocaine bust.The cocaine in Hamburg was loaded into tins of puttyGerman customs officials on Wednesday revealed they had seized more than 16 tonnes of cocaine in containers that arrived in Hamburg from Paraguay while another 7.2 tonnes were seized in Belgium .

The drugs were found in a search on February 12 of five containers from Paraguay that had been flagged as suspect in a risk analysis by several European customs authorities, the Hamburg office said. A search by Belgian customs officials on Saturday uncovered 7.2 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a container of wood blocks.

Using a different measure of price, Dutch prosecutors estimated the wholesale value of the combined shipments at some 600 million euros .

 

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Whoopdy doo, there'll be an even bigger bust eventually. Even if u bite into supply all that does is increase the prices thus incentive to traffic drugs which will probably also increase due the shitty Keynesian economic experiments that are going on stagnating the masses.

Whoopdy doo, there'll be an even bigger bust eventually. Even if u bite into supply all that does is increase the prices thus incentive to traffic drugs which will probably also increase due the shitty Keynesian economic experiments that are going on stagnating real growth.

They will continue as human rights fights against death penalty and countries refuse to shell the ones known to grow and known homes where the main drug dealers live

I assume it's third world scam insured because that's a lifetime of drug debt.

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