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Customs authorities in Germany and Belgium have recently seized a record amount of more than 23 tonnes of cocaine destined for the Netherlands.
Officials in Germany seized 16 tonnes of heavy drugs in five consignments arriving at the port of Hamburg from Paraguay earlier this month.
While police in the Netherlands also said they had been notified of another 7.2 tonnes of cocaine seized in the Belgian port of Antwerp.
Officials in Germany said the seized cocaine was worth billions of dollars.
A 28-year-old man suspected of being involved in drug trafficking has been arrested in the Netherlands, police said today, adding that two actions earlier this month in Amsterdam caused the seizure of an “immense amount of cocaine”.
In the port of Antwerp, the drug was hidden in a container filled with wooden blocks from Panama.
While the cocaine found in the German port of Hamburg was hidden in cans with wall fillers, which had entered Europe in a container ship from Paraguay.
“Beneath a layer of legal goods, packed behind the container door, was the amount of cans of illegal goods,” said an official, adding that cocaine was hidden in more than 1,700 cans.
Hamburg is the third largest port in Europe and the largest in Germany.
While Paraguay has been for years a transit route of drugs out of Latin America.
Powerful gangs from neighboring countries like Brazil, have expanded across the border into Paraguay, sending drug containers to Europe.
In October, 11.5 tonnes of cocaine were found in a metal shipment for scrap, coming to Antwerp from Latin America.
Last year about 102 tonnes of cocaine were banned before entering European ports.
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