€600 million cocaine shipment found at Rotterdam port; largest drug bust ever in NL
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This article was updated at 16:47 to incorporate comments from Aukje de Vries and Dilan Yeşilgöz, as well as details about the previous record set in 2005 and the volume of drugs seized this year.
Customs officials in the port of Rotterdam made the largest drug bust ever in the Netherlands on Thursday. A total of 8,064 packages, each containing 1 kilo of cocaine, were retrieved from 12 banana pallets, the Public Prosecution Service announced on Thursday. The street value was estimated at 600 million euros.
