Dutch customs uncover 4MT of cocaine in Costa Rican pineapple shipment
The Netherlands has recorded the second-largest drug bust in its history, involving a container of pineapples from Costa Rica.
In an announcement today, the District Procuratorate in Rotterdam said 4,000 kilograms, or four metric tons (MT), were discovered in a container of pineapples on June 1, the same day as their arrival.
The bust comes just shy of a 4,200kg drug seizure in 2005.
Customs officers found 3,780 packages of the drug in boxes hidden between fruit in pallets.
The container was intended for a company in Westland but eventually came to a storage and transhipment company in Barendrecht.
The cocaine was estimated to have a street value of €140 million, and was destroyed.
The case comes shortly after €30 million worth of cocaine was intercepted in an Ecuadorian banana shipment in Rotterdam.
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