According to Ecuadorean officials, more than three tonnes of cocaine were discovered in boxes of bananas bound for Europe.
According to the Venezuelan newspaper La Nacion, the police stated on Twitter that drugs were discovered in the coastal province of Guayas and its capital city, Guayaquil, which is located in the southwest of the country and is home to the country’s main ports.
Ecuadorean police said that a criminal drug cell had disguised cocaine in banana shipments intended for Europe, and that when police dogs investigated the container transporting the bananas for export, they discovered 92 boxes containing 2,300 rectangular bundles totaling 2297,700 kilogrammes of cocaine.
We have removed 23 million doses from the market that were to be delivered to the United Kingdom as a result of this operation, police stated in the video, adding that the motorist had been arrested for interrogation.
The seizure comes only one day after another such action involving a shipment of cocaine wrapped in 4,800 tuna cans, which is remarkably identical to the one carried out by Colombia on Thursday in the province of Nario near the Ecuadorian border.
The chemical was discovered during a house search in Manta, Ecuador’s coastal province of Manabi, according to officials on social media, where four guys were detained.
According to the police investigation, the building was used as a temporary assembly centre for the storage and conditioning of drugs.
Similarly, officials reported the seizure of nearly a tonne of cocaine in a container of export bananas at a harbour in Guayas province, bound for Rotterdam.
According to data issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its most recent global report on narcotics and crime, Ecuador seized the third most drugs in 2021, after only Colombia and the United States. drugs.
Ecuador captured 210 tonnes of drugs in 2021, according to official government projections, a record that might be broken again this year, after it finished the first semester with around 100 tonnes confiscated.
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Ecuador seizes around 3 tonnes of cocaine concealed in banana and tuna containers bound for Europe.
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