Dutch Customs has intercepted a large batch of cocaine on the Maasvlakte this week. The public prosecutor in Rotterdam announced this on Friday afternoon. It concerns two batches with a total of 3000 kilos. 6 people were arrested.


The drug catch in a business premises in Wateringen, South-Holland at the end of February this year, was much larger than previously thought. According to the Public Prosecution Service, research shows that there were 550 kilos and possibly even 800 kilos of drugs in the building. Initially, the police reported that it involved 400 kilos of methamphetamine (crystal meth) with a street value of 80 million euros. Later that was adjusted to 352 kilos.

During the raid in February, six men were arrested by an arrest team in a building on the Schipluidenseweg in Wateringen. Five suspects (two from Spain, three from Mexico) say that they are victims of human trafficking and that they were forced to work in the drug lab. They would have been misled and believed that they were going to work in construction. The OM does not believe this.