One million euros (over $1.68m AUD) worth of cocaine has been found hidden in a shipment of bananas by Greek authorities.
According to Reuters the drugs were seized from a vessel in Piraeus port on Monday, and were found with the help of the Homeland Security Investigations unit of the U.S. embassy in Athens.
The coast guard released a statement and said that authorities found about 35 kg of cocaine in 30 packages hidden in the cooling system of a container filled with bananas from Ecuador.
In the past decade South American production of cocaine has risen and Balkan traffickers have turned Europe into the world’s biggest market for the drug.
This is the just the latest find by Greek authorities this year, in May they stopped an international criminal group trafficking cocaine in shipping containers from Latin America to Europe, and days later confiscated more than 109 kg of cocaine hidden in a container with frozen squid on a ship at Piraeus port.
