PRAGUE — A document quantity of cocaine was seized in a cargo for supermarkets within the Czech Republic, police stated Friday.
They stated 840 kilograms (1,852 kilos) of cocaine had been found in cardboard containers with bananas by workers in supermarkets in northern cities of Jicin and Rychnov nad Kneznou. Officers at the moment are looking out different shops within the nation the place banana containers from the identical cargo overseas had been delivered.
Police stated they had been cooperating on the case with their counterparts from different unspecified international locations.
Jakub Frydrych, the pinnacle of the police anti-narcotics unit, instructed the Czech public radio the cocaine probably originated in Central America.
The avenue worth of the drug is estimated to be greater than 2 billion Czech crowns ($86 million).
In an identical case in 2015, over 100 kilograms (220 kilos) of cocaine was found in a Prague grocery store. In 1999, police seized 117 kilograms (258 kilos) of cocaine in a warehouse north of Prague packed amongst dry fruit.
Earlier this week Italian brokers confiscated 4.3 tons of cocaine with a avenue worth of practically a quarter-billion euros within the northeastern port metropolis of Trieste, dealing a blow to Colombia’s feared Gulf Clan in one of many largest drug busts ever in Europe.
Arrest warrants had been being executed for 38 individuals on suspicion of worldwide drug trafficking in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, the Netherlands and Colombia. The seizure was carried out by Italian monetary police and coordinated by anti-mafia investigators, following a yearlong investigation that additionally concerned U.S. Homeland Security.
The undercover operation “took another strong tackle to one of the most important groups of Colombian narcos,” anti-mafia investigators stated in an announcement in English.
Along with the drug, brokers additionally seized 1.8 million euros in money in addition to autos allegedly used for trafficking, together with a big-rig truck.
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