Cocaine from Colombia was found in paint buckets in the Odessa port
In the Yuzhny sea trade port in the Odessa region, cocaine was found, which was mixed in buckets with paints and varnishes, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The State Fiscal Service reported this on Facebook.
“The cover product for drugs arriving at the Yuzhny sea trading port from Colombia was not traditional bananas or pineapples, but paints and varnishes. Creative drug dealers simply mixed cocaine in buckets with construction material. It is impossible to determine the drug content in the cargo either visually or with the help of express analyzers and dogs,” the State Fiscal Service reported.
The department noted that drug traffickers hoped to import cocaine mixed with paints and varnishes into Ukraine in a “legal” way to one of the domestic enterprises, and then separate it in a drug laboratory.
However, employees of the department for combating the illegal movement of drugs and weapons of the department for combating customs offenses and international cooperation of the Odessa Customs of the State Fiscal Service identified the cargo as having a potentially high risk for the possible movement of drugs. They initiated sampling.
“Experts from the Odessa Department for Expertise and Research of the Department of Tax and Customs Expertise of the State Fiscal Service found cocaine in the selected samples. In particular, some 30-kilogram buckets contain up to 3 kg of this drug. This gives reason to predict that this discovery could become one of the record cocaine shipments,” the service commented.
The weight of the detained cargo is almost 19,5 tons. The total amount of pure drug will be determined after the examination.
Based on this fact, Odessa customs officers sent a notification of a criminal offense to the SBU department in the Odessa region under Article 305 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
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