Uruguay seizes 6 tons of cocaine worth $1B in country’s largest bust – By Lucia I. Suarez Sang (Fox News) / Dec 29 2019
Naval and customs officers in Uruguay seized a staggering six tons of cocaine this week, with authorities calling it the country’s biggest bust ever.
The National Armada said in a press release that on Dec. 26 officers at the Montevideo port were checking four shipping containers with soy flour destined for Lome, the capital of Togo in West Africa.
Authorities said a scanner flagged “abnormalities” in the shipment, which turned out to be a total of 4,003 bricks of cocaine – about 4.4 tons of the drug. One container contained 3,089 bricks of cocaine, each weighing about 2.4 pounds.
Officials estimated the value of the drug shipment at $1 billion in the European market.
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