Two tons of cocaine hidden in a container bound for Belgium were seized on Wednesday in Costa Rica, the Costa Rican Ministry of the Interior said in a statement on Thursday.
The drugs were discovered during the inspection of a load of pineapples aboard a container ship in the port of Moin (Caribbean coast) by the anti-drug police.
The drug was packaged in “
2,000 packages of cocaine, each about one kilo,
” the Interior Ministry said.
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Costa Rica's seaborne tropical fruit exports are widely used by drug trafficking networks, particularly to Europe.
In January, Costa Rican drug police discovered 110 kilograms of cocaine concealed in a shipment of pineapple juice bound for Spain.
More than 16 tons of cocaine were seized last year by Costa Rican authorities in containers.
Drug trafficking from producing countries in South America to the United States and Europe passes for the most part through Central American countries by land, sea or air.