Ecuador seized at least 3.2 tons of cocaine, two of which were hidden in a container loaded with bananas bound for Europe, police said on Saturday.
“The investigations resulted in the seizure of more than two tons of cocaine inside a #GYE container (from Guayaquil, in the west, editor’s note), which was destined for Europe,” police said in a statement in an email. Tweet.
And “thanks to the inspection of a container of bananas for export, 87 boxes were found in another place with (in total) one ton 213 kilos of cocaine,” in another port in the coastal province of Guayas (west), the police added. Ecuadorian.
More than 100 tons seized since January
Ecuador, a Latin American country sandwiched between Colombia and Peru, the world’s top producers of cocaine, seized a record 210 tons of drugs, mostly white powder, in 2021. Seizures since the beginning of this year exceed 100 tons.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Ecuador was the third country for the amount of cocaine seized in 2020, behind Colombia and the United States.
Thus, the Ecuadorian authorities seized 6.5% of the 1,424 tons seized worldwide, according to a report by the UN agency published in June.
Source: BFM TV
