WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s Border Guard seized nearly 440 kilograms of cocaine price round 180 million zlotys ($43.6 million) on the Baltic sea port of Gdynia, it mentioned on Thursday.
The cocaine was hidden in containers, which had been filled with ground boards from Bolivia, and had been shipped from Chile, the Border Guard mentioned.
“Experts found that it (the cocaine) was exceptionally pure,” Border Guard spokesperson Anna Michalska informed state-run news channel TVP Info. “It was a big blow to this criminal group, they lost a lot of money.”
A 46-year-old man from the Mazowieckie area of central Poland has been detained in reference to the case and authorities mentioned extra arrests might observe.
A file 303 tons of cocaine was seized by European Union Member States in 2021, in response to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain had been the nations reporting the biggest seizures of the drug, which is the second-most broadly utilized in Europe after hashish.
In 2020, Polish authorities seized a file haul of over three tons of cocaine hidden in barrels of frozen pineapple pulp in Gdynia. ($1 = 4.1257 zlotys) — Reuters
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