Officials in Uruguay have seized more than four tonnes of cocaine on its way out of the country.
The country’s navy has described the haul as the “biggest blow to drug trafficking in the history of our country.”
Uruguay’s customs director Jaime Borgiani said the drugs would be worth around $1bn (€890m) in the European market.
The 4,418kg of cocaine, amounting to 4,003 bricks, was found when “anomalies” in four soy flour containers were detected by scanners at the Port of Montevideo.
DGRTID - allanaron establecimiento rural donde se habrían cargado los contenedores intervenidos en el Puerto de Mdeo, (Km 292 de la Ruta 21 - próximo a Dolores, Soriano). Se incautó más droga en el lugar. Dueño e hijo detenidos y declarando en Fiscalía por estas horas. pic.twitter.com/E5VFudEkht
— UNICOM (@MI_UNICOM) December 27, 2019
More drugs were found when police raided the ranch the consignment came from.
The country’s interior ministry said the owner of the property and his son were arrested and are now cooperating with prosecutors.
The drugs were bound for Lomé the capital city of Togo in Africa.
