Rome, July 21, 2026 (AFP) - Italy seizes cocaine worth 250m euros in banana shipment

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2026-07-21

Italian police on Tuesday said they had seized pure cocaine with an estimated street value of 250 million euros ($286 million) at a port in northwest Italy. Some 770 kilograms (1,700 pounds) of cocaine was concealed in a refrigerated container from Ecuador among dozens of pallets of bananas found at the port of Vado Ligure, police said in a statement. Following a previous drug seizure at the same port, authorities have increased monitoring of Vad......

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