More than 380 kilos of cocaine intercepted in the port of Vlissingen
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VLISSINGEN - More than 380 kilos of cocaine were intercepted in the port of Vlissingen on Saturday thanks to two finds, the Public Prosecution Service reports. The drugs with a street value of 28.5 million euros were in bags attached to two buoys and in a warehouse with bananas.

Rijkswaterstaat reported the bags that were attached to two buoys in the Western Scheldt. When the bags were brought to the port and customs officers inspected them, they found 360 kilos of cocaine.

That same afternoon, a customs officer checking a warehouse with pallets of bananas came across another 20.5 kilos of cocaine. The coke was hidden in the flaps of boxes.

The drugs have now been destroyed, according to the Public Prosecution Service.