The Ukrainian customs officers in the sea port “Pivdennyi” has revealed a unique way of moving large quantities of cocaine: drugs were found in buckets of paint.
This “discovery” may be one of a record cocaine parties, the press centre of the State fiscal service in Facebook.
“Goods of a cover for a drugs received by marine trading port “Pivdennyi” of Colombia, were not the traditional bananas or pineapples, and paint materials. Creative drug traffickers are simply mixed in buckets with the construction material of cocaine,” — said in the message.
While the Ministry stressed that neither visually, nor with Express-analyzers and dogs the content of drug in the cargo cannot be set.
“Calculation of drug traffickers was simple: “legal” way to import into Ukraine at one of the local companies mixed with paints cocaine, and then to allocate it in a meth lab,” he sneaks out.
However, customs identified the cargo as having a potential high risk for the possible movement of drugs and initiated sampling.
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It is known that the experts of the Odessa management on issues of expertise and research of the Department of tax and customs examination GFS in selected samples found cocaine.
“In particular, in some 30-pound buckets contains up to three kilograms of the drug. This gives reason to predict that this discovery may be one of a record cocaine parties. The weight of the delayed goods is almost 19.5 tons. The total amount of drug will be determined after the examination”, — said the Agency.
On this fact the Odessa customs officers and law enforcement agencies alerted about the criminal offense under article 305 of the Criminal code of Ukraine.
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