Officials in Uruguay seized more than six tons of cocaine, the largest drug bust in the country’s history.
Roughly 4.9 tons of the drug was found inside containers marked as soy flour which had been bound for Togo on an Italian ship, the BBC reported.
A ranch where the coke had been loaded onto a truck in Uruguay’s western Soriano region was also raided, yielding another 1.7 tons of coke.
The drugs would have an estimated street value of more than a billion dollars.
“The important thing is to show the world and drug traffickers that you don’t mess around with Uruguayan customs,” Jaime Borgiani, the country’s customs director told the outlet. “We’ve taken the necessary steps to rid the country of this scourge.”
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