Brazilian police announced that 290 kg of cocaine was seized on a cellulose-laden ship waiting to go to Martaş Port in Tekirdağ’s Marmaraereğlisi district.
The narcotics teams, whose destination is Turkey and which is anchored in Santos Port, called the divers on the suspicion that drugs were being carried in a compartment in the ship’s hull, barely below the water level and used to collect water on the ship.
The Brazilian Federal Police seized the cocaine, which was found as a result of the divers’ search, in areas where the authorities noted that it was very difficult to access.
It was stated that the cocaine seized as a result of the operation carried out by the Federal Police, the Brazilian Navy and the Federal Revenue Service to prevent international drug trafficking, was kept in bales.
According to the Brazilian press, which announced the incident as the first major drug operation of this year, no person associated with the incident has been arrested so far.
The Port of Santos, Latin America’s largest port, is often the scene of similar drug seizure operations.
Experts for Santos Port, where 17 tons of cocaine were seized in 2021, according to official data, note that it is one of the important centers for transporting cocaine produced in South America to Europe and Asia.
After the seizure of 1.3 tons of cocaine on the former TC ATA plane belonging to the Prime Ministry, for a while in August 2021, the role of Brazil in the shipment of cocaine from Latin America to Turkey from Latin America and the role of criminal organizations in the two countries were also reported in the Turkish media. relations were brought up.
On July 31, 2022, at a port in Marmaraereğlisi, narcotics teams seized 242 kilograms of cocaine in 200 packages during a search by divers aboard the dry cargo ship that left Brazil.
According to the 2022 World Drug Report, although cocaine is not produced in the South American country, where approximately 80 tons of cocaine was seized, Brazil has a strategic importance in the cocaine route sent to West Africa, Asia and Europe, according to police reports.
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