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Traffickers disguise cocaine as bananas at Ecuador's ports

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Drug traffickers at Ecuador's ports have adopted a rather unusual tactic to avoid the police finding their stash: hiding their illicit cargo inside bananas. Tracking down all this smuggled cocaine is proving something of an expensive headache for police and exporters alike - with Ecuador seizing a record 210 tons of the powder in 2021.

Added on the 21/04/2022 17:08:17 - Copyright : AFP EN

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