The cocaine was hidden in a cargo container of asparagus on the Liberian-flagged vessel SC Anisha R, which was stopping at an Ecuadorian port. The shipment is bound for Belgium.
In Peru, police seized 58 kilograms of cocaine with a Nazi flag on the outside and Adolf Hitler’s name printed on it. This was reported by The Times of Israel.
The drugs were found in the port of Paita on Peru’s northern Pacific coast near the Ecuadorian border.
The cocaine was hidden in a cargo container of asparagus on the Liberian-flagged vessel SC Anisha R, which was stopping at an Ecuadorian port. The cargo is going to a port in Belgium. Police are still searching for more than 80 containers on the ship.
Peruvian authorities previously reported the discovery of cocaine in brick-shaped packages with various and strange symbols, but before that there had been no case of packaging with the Nazi swastika.
Peru is the second largest producer of coca leaves in the world and the second largest producer of cocaine in the world.
According to the Peruvian authorities, the country produces about 100 tons of drugs per year, and most of them reach Europe by sea, as well as small planes that bring cocaine to Bolivia, to Atlantic Ocean ports.
Earlier in the Italian port, the dog helped detect about 3 tons of cocaine. The value of the found drugs sent to Armenia on the black market is about 800 million euros.
And in Russia, they recently announced the interception of almost 500 kg of cocaine bound for Poland.
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Source: korrespondent
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