Germany seizes 1.3 tons of cocaine in Hamburg port

[WillieW]

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Hamburg - German customs agents have seized 1.3 tons of cocaine in the port of Hamburg, describing it Tuesday as the biggest haul of the drug ever intercepted by authorities in Germany....

Posted : Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:03:09 GMT
By : dpa
Category : Europe (World)
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Hamburg - German customs agents have seized 1.3 tons of cocaine in the port of Hamburg, describing it Tuesday as the biggest haul of the drug ever intercepted by authorities in Germany.

Customs officials in Germany's main port estimated the street value of the haul at nearly 40 million euros (54 million dollars).

South American smugglers regularly try to move the drug into Europe by hiding it in containers of bananas, coffee beans or wine.

This time the drug was hidden inside sawdust briquettes. As a test, the gang sent six containers of the fuel from Colombia to Hamburg between November and March, each time without any cocaine inside.

The seventh container was packed with hollow briquettes stuffed with cocaine.

Surveillance of the gang began last year. Detectives admitted they became "pumped up" as they waited for the container to arrive by s

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[Flaneur]

1. Damn. It'll take the traffickers a couple of days to make up for that.

[Blue_Tires]

2. Diego Maradona had it checked as baggage

when he was there for the ARG-GER friendly last month...