204 sheets of cocaine seized in banana shipment bound for Europe

Santo Domingo.- As part of intensified joint inspection efforts, agents from the National Directorate of Drug Control (DNCD), with support from Military Security at the Caucedo Multimodal Port and Customs inspectors, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, seized 204 sheets of what is presumed to be cocaine. The drugs were concealed within a shipment of bananas destined for Europe.

Acting on intelligence reports, operational units profiled numerous export containers, and upon detecting inconsistencies, conducted a more thorough inspection under the prosecutor’s orders. Inside a container bound for Rotterdam, the Netherlands, they discovered several boxes with false bottoms, each containing the 204 sheets of the suspected cocaine.

The drugs, wrapped in brown adhesive tape, were hidden in the false lids of the boxes to evade detection. Authorities have launched an investigation to identify and prosecute the members of this international drug trafficking network, which is known for smuggling drugs to Europe, the United States, and Canada by concealing them in agricultural shipments.