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BUCHAREST, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Organized crime police in Romania announced Friday they had made a record-breaking drug bust in the Black Sea Port of Constanta, where some 2.5 tons of cocaine were seized.
The drugs, with an estimated value of over 600 million euro (668 million U.S. dollars), had been concealed in four containers downloaded from a ship and were to be transported by road in cargo trucks to the Netherlands, chief prosecutor Daniel Horodniceanu told a press conference.
It was the biggest cocaine bust in Romania and one of the largest in Europe, added Horodniceanu, without disclosing the date of the seizure.
Six people have been arrested in this case. Five of them, Colombian and Lithuanian nationals, were apprehended in Romania, while the head of the trafficking network, a Morocco-born citizen of the Netherlands and Spain, was arrested in Spain. Enditem
