Italian police on Friday seized some
412 kilogrammes of cocaine in the port of La Spezia near Genoa.
The drugs were contained in a container from the Dominican
Republic heading for the port of Valencia in Spain.
They had a false seal on them, police said.
The cocaine, hidden in a shipment of paper pulp, was split into
12 packages each containing 359 bars ready to be offloaded in
the so-called rip-off system whereby drugs are placed behind the
container's doors so that traffickers have easy access to them
in the port areas.
The cocaine was extremely pure and very high quality, police
said.
It had a street value of over 100 million euros.
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