Photo: Hauptzollamt Hamburg using Port of Hamburg

BERLIN (Reuters)– German authorities on Friday stated they had actually confiscated 4.5 tonnes of drug well worth 1 billion euros ($ 1.11 billion) in the north port city of Hamburg– the country’s most significant medications carry to day.

The Hamburg personalizeds workplace stated it had actually analyzed a questionable delivery container 2 weeks ago that originated from the Uruguayan funding Montevideo and also was bound for the Belgian city of Antwerp.

The container’s summary stated it was filled with soybeans however authorities rather discovered 221 black sporting activity bags consisting of 4,200 packages of pushed drug, the workplace stated in a declaration.

“This enormous amount represents the largest single seizure of cocaine in Germany,” it stated, including that the Hamburg district attorney’s workplace was exploring that was predestined to get the materials of the container.

“The confiscated cocaine was destroyed under strict and extensive security measures,” it included.

($ 1 = 0.9011 euros) (Reporting by Riham Alkousaa; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

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