Bananas full of cocaine

The Italian police busted a cocaine transport. The law man discovered 215 kilograms of cocaine stashed in bags among bananas coming from Ecuador.

The operation took place at the Cioia Tauro port in Calabria. The drugs found, are worth 43 million euros on the drug market. Police said the transport was tracked and found thanks to scanning equipment. The official statement added: “The transport container the purest cocaine ever found in Cioia Tauro”.

The Italian drug department along with the police are facing smart smugglers trying to bring pure drugs into the country from South America. A few months ago, police found a transport worth 60 million euros near Genoa in a banana shipment from the Dominican Republic.

The Calabrian port is under the influence of “Ndrangheta” mafia which has strong relations with the drug market in Latin America.