Almost two tons of cocaine with a market value of more than 400 million euros were found floating off the east coast of Sicily, the Italian customs and financial police said.
Source: Profimedia/Bodo Marks/dpa
The police said that this is a record seizure.
The statement states that the drugs were packed in 70 airtight packages, carefully sealed, held together by a fishing net.
There was also a light signaling device on the net.
“Unusual packaging methods and the presence of a luminous device that enables tracking suggest that the catch was dropped into the sea by a cargo ship, to be picked up again later,” the police statement points out.
