In Ecuador, the world’s largest exporter of bananas, tons of drugs were seized in the container containing the bananas sent to Belgium.
Ecuadorian police said they had seized 8.8 tons of cocaine hidden in a container full of banana crates. The market value of the seized drugs was reported to be 330 million dollars.
In Ecuador, which has become one of the main transit countries for cocaine produced in Peru and Colombia, it is known that drug traffickers often hide their shipments among fruit shipped from the port city of Guayaquil to all over the world. More than 200 tons of drugs were seized in Ecuador last year, most of them in the port of Guayaquil.
ALARM IN EUROPEAN PORTS
Large quantities of cocaine have been seized in the Port of Antwerp in Belgium in recent years. “I am deeply concerned that the expanding EU cocaine market is causing an increase in violence and corruption in public institutions and administration,” said Alexis Gosdeel, Director of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction. said. (UAV)