The cocaine slabs had been placed in the refrigerated container with a legal cargo of bananas from Ecuador.
Officers of the Narcotics and Smuggling Directorate, the Regional Narcotics Enforcement Team and the Security Office of the Central Port Authority of Piraeus located and seized a quantity of cocaine, the value of which exceeds one million euros (€1,000,000), in the early hours of today. .
In particular, in the context of an investigation and in cooperation with the HSI Office (US Homeland Security Investigations) of the US embassy. in Athens, thirty (30) packages containing a quantity of cocaine with a total gross weight of thirty-four kilograms and three hundred and fifty-four grams (34,354 grams) were found inside a ship that had sailed to the Container Terminal in the port of Piraeus.
The slabs of cocaine were placed in a refrigerated container with a legal cargo of bananas that had been loaded at an Ecuadorian port.
An investigation followed in two more containers with negative results.
The Central Port Authority of Piraeus, which is conducting the preliminary investigation, confiscated the narcotic substances, which will then be sent to the State General Chemistry.
Source: Skai
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