Jan 12 (Reuters) – Sweden on Monday confiscated an estimated three metric tons of cocaine, the country’s single-biggest seizure of the drug, in the port of southwestern city Helsingborg, daily Sydsvenskan reported, citing customs. The narcotics were found in a container from South America, Prosecutor Mans Biorklund told daily Dagens Nyheter. There had been no […]
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Sweden makes record three-ton seizure of cocaine from South America
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Jan 12 (Reuters) – Sweden on Monday confiscated an estimated three metric tons of cocaine, the country’s single-biggest seizure of the drug, in the port of southwestern city Helsingborg, daily Sydsvenskan reported, citing customs.
The narcotics were found in a container from South America, Prosecutor Mans Biorklund told daily Dagens Nyheter. There had been no arrests in connection with the find, he said.
Spanish police earlier on Monday made their largest-ever cocaine seizure on the high seas, intercepting a vessel carrying almost 10 metric tons of the drug concealed in a shipment of salt en route from Brazil to Europe.
(Reporting by Jagoda Darlak, editing by Anna Ringstrom and Sharon Singleton)