Officials in Germany said that “(B)eyond a layer of genuine goods, packed just behind the container door, numerous tin cans were in fact filled with other goods,” which ultimately proved to be over 1,700 tins full of cocaine.
“This is the largest amount of cocaine ever seized in Europe and one of the largest single seizures worldwide,” the German authorities later added, with Hamburg customs official Rene Matschke telling the AFP news agency that “We are estimating a street sales value of between €1.5bn and €3.5bn ($1.8bn and $4.2bn) for the 16 tons,”
Paraguay, an ally of Taiwan, has long been the origin of drugs shipped worldwide although no immediate information was available on which seaport, if any, had been used in South America; Paraguay is largely landlocked although it does connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Paraguay River.
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