Liberia seizes $317 mil. of cocaine bound for Europe
Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) staff prepare to burn seized drugs during World Drug Day in Careysburg Burning Site, Monrovia, Liberia, June 26. According to the LDEA, authorities destroyed 1,045 kilograms of narcotics with an estimated street value of $1.5 million, including marijuana, kush, cocaine, heroin, tramadol and tapentadol. That shipment came from Sierra Leone and was bound for Britain, Coleman said.It has been linked to Dutch cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers, Coleman added, though he declined to provide details.
- ▪Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) staff prepare to burn seized drugs during World Drug Day in Careysburg Burning Site, Monrovia, Liberia, June 26.
- ▪According to the LDEA, authorities destroyed 1,045 kilograms of narcotics with an estimated street value of $1.5 million, including marijuana, kush, cocaine, heroin, tramadol and tapentadol.
- ▪That shipment came from Sierra Leone and was bound for Britain, Coleman said.It has been linked to Dutch cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers, Coleman added, though he declined to provide details.
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Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) staff prepare to burn seized drugs during World Drug Day in Careysburg Burning Site, Monrovia, Liberia, June 26. According to the LDEA, authorities destroyed 1,045 kilograms of narcotics with an estimated street value of $1.5 million, including marijuana, kush, cocaine, heroin, tramadol and tapentadol. YonhapMONROVIA — Liberian authorities have seized around $317 million worth of cocaine that was bound for Europe, a senior police official said, in one of the West African country's largest recorded drug busts.Officers found 3,971 kg of cocaine in the town of Duazon, east of the capital Monrovia, on Tuesday, Gregory Coleman, inspector general of the Liberian National Police, told Reuters.They arrested two suspects, one with passports from both Spain…
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