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Netherlands seized record 8 tonnes of cocaine: prosecutor

Netherlands seized record 8 tonnes of cocaine: prosecutor
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Dutch authorities seized over eight tonnes of cocaine discovered in a container ship from Ecuador, the nation’s largest ever seizure of the drug, prosecutors said Thursday.

The drugs, valued at an estimated 600 million euros, were concealed in a container carrying bananas that had arrived in Rotterdam via Panama, prosecutors said.

 

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