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Around 160 kg of cocaine, worth around US$16.4 million, was seized in the northern Croatian Adriatic port of Rijeka and the Greek port of Piraeus in an international police operation in which six Bosnian nationals and a Greek were arrested.
Half the seized cocaine was discovered in a container in the Rijeka port in mid-September this year, while the rest was found in a container in the Greek port of Piraeus in late October.
Both containers were loaded onto a ship in the port of Guayaquil, Ecuador, and were ordered by companies based in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in Greece.
This is one of the biggest drug seizures this year. The value of the highly pure cocaine has been estimated at nearly $16.4 million.
Croatian police director Marijan Benko said it was a strong blow to the narco-mafia in the Balkans, who increasingly use Croatian Adriatic ports, notably the port of Rijeka, for drug smuggling.
More than 1.2 tonnes of cocaine has been seized in the Rijeka port on two occasions in the last 10 years.
The latest operation involved police from Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Greece, and the Bosnian Serb entity
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