The drugs were hidden in a container from Ecuador loaded with bananas. That container arrived on Saturday with a seagoing vessel from Antwerp and was destined for a company in The Hague. The OM does not think that company is involved in the smuggling.
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Destroyed
The HARC team, a partnership of Customs, FIOD, Seaport Police and the Public Prosecution Service in Rotterdam, is investigating the case further. The drugs have since been destroyed.
Last year, the HARC team intercepted a total of 33,732 kilos of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam. This nearly doubled the amount of drugs found in 2018, when the team intercepted 18,947 kilos of cocaine.
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The drugs are almost always hidden in containers with a different load, ranging from fruit, frozen chicken legs or tree trunks, to lime juice, fish, soapstone and Volkswagen Beetles.
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