Dutch customizeds took greater than 1.6 tonnes of drug concealed in deliveries of bananas, cacao beans and also concrete in the port of Rotterdam, district attorneys stated Wednesday.
The medications, with a projected road worth of EUR127 million, were concealed in 3 containers that got here in Europe’s biggest port.
” The very first container originated from Ecuador and also was packed with bananas predestined for a business in Barendrecht, near Rotterdam,” district attorneys stated.
” The medications in the 2nd container were discovered in a tons of cacao beans, likewise from Ecuador, however which had actually transited with Colombia and afterwards got here by means of Antwerp,” they stated.
A 3rd container, packed with concrete bound for Portugal, included 5 sporting activities bags loaded with medications.
Seizures have actually risen this year in the port of Rotterdam, currently taken into consideration among Europe’s primary portals for medications, particularly drug.
Dutch customizeds authorities stated on Tuesday they had actually seized a document 68 tonnes of drug this year, up from 49 tonnes in 2020.
The EU’s crime-fighting body cautioned that the Netherlands and also adjoining Belgium were coming to be significant centers for drug, particularly for consignments from Colombia.
The North Sea shore has currently “surpass the Iberian peninsula as the primary entrance factor for drug right into Europe”, Europol stated in a record in September.
After marijuana, drug is the 2nd most prominent medication in Western and also Central Europe, with an approximated 4.4 million individuals in the previous year, the record stated.
