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SPANISH AUTHORITIES seized 300 kilos of cocaine worth €10 million euros from a container loaded with pureed bananas that arrived from Costa Rica, the government tax office said on Thursday.
Police and customs officers found the cocaine on Monday in the Mediterranean port of Valencia, Spain’s second busiest port, a tax office spokesman said.
There were 300 bricks of high quality cocaine in the container and each had a label with the word “éxito” (“success”) on it, he added.
Spanish authorities were trying to figure out the origin of the cocaine, which arrived on September 26 on a boat that departed Puerto Moin just east of San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.
Spain’s close ties with its former colonies in Latin America have made it the main entry point used by drug smugglers to bring cocaine to Europe.
The record amount of cocaine seized in a single year in Spain was set in 2005, when authorities confiscated just under 50 tonnes of the drug.
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Good work by the authorities searching through those bricks of cocaine to find those bananas.
That’s bananas
Any hash
Is there tax on bananas?
Why are bananas in ROI €1.25/kg and 65p/kg in NI?
Banana Spliff,
“Spanish authorities were trying to figure out the origin of the cocaine” Start looking in South America lads :-) Fair play to them in all fairness. Horrible dirty filthy drug….
Banana Spliff
It’s noting to be sniffed at
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