Italian police seize 788kg of cocaine at southern port
Italian police have seized 788 kilogrammes of cocaine hidden inside bags of pellets and in the engine area of a refrigerated container, news agency ANSA reported.
The cocaine, with a street value of about €126 million ($132 million), was found by the Guardia di Finanza police in the port of Gioia Tauro in the southern region of Calabria.
The cocaine was split into bricks.
Some of them were found hidden in hundreds of bags of pellets, while others had been carefully concealed inside a cavity in the engine compartment of a refrigerated container transporting frozen fish.
The drugs were discovered upon closer inspection of three suspicious shipping containers hailing from South America and heading to ports in Italy and Spain, ANSA reported.
The Guardia di Finanza is a branch of the police that investigates financial crimes and smuggling.
(dpa/NAN)
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