Most of the drug trade in Italy, and much of Europe, is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta crime group, a highly sophisticated global network dealing in international narcotics that operates in 40 countries.
The fine nose of an anti-drug dog named Joel alongside his colleagues in the canine unit and some sophisticated scanners helped sniff out 2,734 kg of pure cocaine hidden in a case of bananas in the port of Gioia Tauro, Italian officials said in a news release.
Stacked in refrigerated silver containers, the 78 tons of bananas hiding the cocaine were coming from Ecuador and being shipped to Armenia, said Italian officials. Custom officials inspecting shipments arriving from South America – many of which held exotic fruits – found the cocaine hidden in the containers in various ways, officials said. They found the drug amongst the fruits, hidden in false bottoms or in external hiding spots on the containers, officials said.
#GDF #ReggioCalabria e Agenzia Dogane e Monopoli-ADM, con il coordinamento della #DDA, nell’ambito della lotta al narcotraffico, hanno sequestrato oltre 2700 kg di cocaina occultati in container in transito nel porto di Gioia Tauro. #NoiconVoiThe street value of the drug would have earned traffickers"an income of over 800 million euros," officials said in the news release.
Collaboration between international drug syndicates and the drug syndicates in the European Union has grown due to what by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction called the"historically high availability of cocaine. The analysis noted that"high levels of cocaine production in South America have resulted in record quantities seized in Europe.", which estimates the EU is a 10.5 billion market for cocaine., a highly sophisticated global network dealing in international narcotics that operates in 40 countries.
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