€100.6 million in drugs haul

Customs  officials seized 610 kilos of cocaine with a street value of €100.6 million in a search of a container at the Malta Freeport.

Customs officials were suspicious of a container which had arrived on a ship from Guayaquil, Ecuador and was heading towards Batumi, Georgia.

The container were listed as containing frozen bananas but specailised scanning equipment revealed a more sinister cargo. Customs officials uncovered 30 boxes of cocanine totalling 610 kilograms.