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Fake bananas with 250 kg of cocaine seized in Gioia Tauro port

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Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) May 10, 2024 – More than 250 kg of cocaine was seized in Italy’s Mediterranean port of Gioia Tauro on May 8 in a load of fake green bananas in a refrigerated container coming from Ecuador. Drug-sniffing dogs made the discovery. A YouTube post about the same drug seizure suggested…

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