Almost 2 tonnes of cocaine with a marketplace price of extra than four hundred million euros ($440 million) had been discovered floating at sea off jap Sicily, in what Italy`s tax and customs police on Monday referred to as a report seizure.
The pills had been saved in approximately 70 water resistant packages, cautiously sealed, held collectively with the aid of using fishermen’s nets and geared up with a luminous signalling tool, the Guardia di Finanza stated in a declaration.
The “unusual packaging techniques and the presence of a luminous tool to permit tracking” propose the haul changed into dumped at sea with the aid of using a shipment deliver so as for it to be recovered later, the declaration added.
Monday’s seizure in comparison with the 20 tonnes of cocaine that Italian police controlled to intercept over the entire of 2021, its anti-pills unit stated in figures launched closing June, stressing that changed into the best every year quantity on report.
Cocaine seizures improved extra than five-fold from 3.6 tonnes in 2018, police cited on the time, describing Italy as a key transit path for the cocaine trade, and in which Balkan crook gangs had been consolidating their positions.
“Congratulations to the Guardia di Finanza for this remarkable operation: (I am) towards all pills and for life, regardless of what”, Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini tweeted on Monday.