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Malta seizes record cocaine haul worth about €70 mil

VALLETTA: Maltese authorities seized more than 600kg of cocaine being sent to Libya in a record-breaking haul worth some €70 million, the customs department said on Thursday.

The cocaine was being shipped from Ecuador and Colombia and was discovered hidden in a container on a ship at Malta Freeport late on Wednesday, the department said in a statement.

Police have opened an investigation.

Customs said officials had seized 510 packets weighing 1.2kg each in what it described as a record-breaking seizure from a single container.

“To get a better perspective, during the whole of 2019 a total of 750kg were intercepted by Customs from 16 containers,” the statement said.

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