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Italy: 2 tons of cocaine found floating in the sea off Sicily

About 70 sealed packages containing 1,600 bars of cocaine were discovered and found off the east coast of a Mediterranean island. | Fountain: AFP | Photographer:

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Two tons of cocaine worth about 400 million euros ($438 million) were found in waterproof packages floating in Mediterranean Seanear Sicily, Italian police said on Monday.

About 70 sealed packages containing 1,600 bars of cocaine were discovered and found off the east coast of a Mediterranean island.

This is “one of the largest drug seizures in the country,” the customs police said in a statement.

The caches were tied together with a thick fishing line and had a positioning system and light signaling.

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This is “one of the largest drug seizures carried out on the territory of the country,” the customs police said. | Fountain: AFP | Photographer:

According to the researchers, “in medicine He was probably thrown into the sea by a cargo ship, only to be later found and brought back to the mainland.”

Drug trafficking in Europe

drug trafficking in Europe largely controlled ‘Ndranghetaa powerful Calabrian mafia that uses versatile intermediaries to infiltrate cocaine V Europe.

Europol estimates that the annual retail market for cocaine in the old continent is between 7.6 and 10.5 billion euros (8.3 to 11.5 billion dollars).

(with AFP information)


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