Italian financial police and customs officers have seized 770 kg of “extra-pure” cocaine worth about €250 million on the street at the port of Vado Ligure in north-west Italy.
The authorities announced the seizure on Tuesday, describing it as one of the biggest anti-drug operations carried out at the port in recent years.
According to an official statement, the shipment was hidden among dozens of pallets of bananas inside a refrigerated container.
The container had arrived from one of Ecuador’s main ports, the statement added.
