Ecuadorian police yesterday Sunday seized 2.4 tons of cocaine hidden in a container of bananas that was to be shipped from the port of Guayaquil (southwest) to Belgium, the Interior Ministry said.
"Two tons of four hundred and fifty-eight kilograms of cocaine were seized," the ministry clarified via Twitter."
Police officers found 2,461 packets of cocaine hidden in the shipment of bananas, one of the country's main export products, during an inspection of a container. One person was arrested.
Ecuadorian law enforcement authorities seized a record 210 tons of drugs, mostly cocaine, in 2021, and have already seized over 70 tons since the beginning of this year.
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Although it is nothing more than a country of transit or drug storage, Ecuador, between Colombia and Peru - the two countries that rank among the world's top countries in terms of cocaine production -, has in recent years faced a large increase in trafficking, mainly through its ports in the Pacific, while the retail sale of cocaine on its domestic market is in full expansion.
Source: protothema.gr
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