{"id":23481,"date":"2025-05-05T14:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/massive-stash-of-cocaine-found-hidden-in-banana-shipment-again\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:14:15","slug":"massive-stash-of-cocaine-found-hidden-in-banana-shipment-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/massive-stash-of-cocaine-found-hidden-in-banana-shipment-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive stash of cocaine found hidden in banana shipment \u2014 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Employees at a Norwegian fruit distributor were stunned when they discovered a packet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/cocaine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cocaine <\/a>in a box of bananas, alerting customs officials who found a stash of 147 kilos, they said Monday. The seizure marked the latest in a string of incidents involving cocaine being found hidden in a shipment containing the fruit. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The haul, found in nine boxes of bananas on April 3, is believed to have a street value of 170 million kroner ($16.4 million) and is the biggest in the Scandinavian country since 2023, when a total of 2.3 tons were found, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toll.no\/no\/om-tolletaten\/aktuelt-fra-tolletaten\/tolletaten-beslagla-147kg-kokain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Norwegian Customs said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen pallets of bananas had recently arrived at the warehouse and were being inspected with scanning equipment, and the scanned image &#8220;showed irregularities in some of the boxes on the pallet,&#8221; officials said, noting that customs officers also conducted a dog search.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs were smuggled by sea from South America and then on a trailer through Sweden, though they were probably not intended for the Norwegian market.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is concrete information that suggests the cocaine was to be picked up at the Antwerp port, based on information through international cooperation with Europol and Belgian authorities,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/05\/eed205c4-0b6c-42ae-a7b2-ca8b59ecd683\/thumbnail\/620x409g4\/409502f49bb179643d3a369defe5fbfe\/bananas-screenshot-2025-05-05-095001.png?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce#\" alt=\"bananas-screenshot-2025-05-05-095001.png \" height=\"409\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/05\/eed205c4-0b6c-42ae-a7b2-ca8b59ecd683\/thumbnail\/620x409g4\/409502f49bb179643d3a369defe5fbfe\/bananas-screenshot-2025-05-05-095001.png?v=7c5acc180b39394767372ab4e02619ce 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Customs officials found a stash of 147 kilos of cocaine in a box of bananas at a fruit distributor in Norway, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Norway Customs<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Customs official Tim Gurrik said a large criminal network was likely behind the attempted smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A seizure of such magnitude requires a great deal of financial and organizational muscle that only larger criminal networks have the ability to carry out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We see that the criminal networks behind the smuggling are willing to take risks and are adaptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cocaine has been found concealed in banana shipments many times across the globe in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, authorities in the Dominican Republic confiscated <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dominican-republic-cocaine-seizure-record-breaking\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">nearly 9.5 tons of cocaine<\/a><\/span> from a banana shipment at the country&#8217;s most important seaport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, customs agents seized more than <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cocaine-3-million-seized-ship-bananas-greece\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">200 pounds of cocaine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0at the port in Greece from a ship carrying the fruit. The month before that, police dogs in Ecuador helped find\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/police-dogs-find-tons-cocaine-hidden-banana-shipment-ecuador\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">more than six tons of cocaine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0hidden in a banana shipment headed to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In March last year, Bulgarian customs officials confiscated about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bulgaria-ecuador-cocaine-seizure-banana-5ba6abb268a2b6e7df8e339bc45e493c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">170 kilograms of cocaine<\/a>\u00a0from a ship transporting bananas from Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>The month before that, British authorities said they found\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/568-million-cocaine-hidden-bananas-record-drug-seizure-uk-southampton\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">more than 12,500 pounds<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of cocaine hidden in a shipment of the fruit, breaking the record for the biggest single seizure of hard drugs in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2023, customs agents in the Netherlands seized\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rotterdam-netherlands-17600-pounds-of-cocaine-seized\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">17,600 pounds of cocaine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found hidden inside crates of bananas in Rotterdam&#8217;s port. 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