Italy Police recover over 2 tons of cocaine with a market value of more than 400 million euros floating in the Mediterranean Sea

Over the weekend, using a regular surveillance aircraft, Italian police off the coast of Sicily recovered over two tonnes of cocaine floating in the Mediterranean Sea. The Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s financial police, said in a statement on Monday that they confiscated cocaine valued at more than 400 million euros that they discovered in 70 waterproof bundles floating in the open sea. Italian police seize record-breaking two metric tones of cocaine found floating off the coast of Sicily pic.twitter.com/z3Zo4sTjeN — RT April 18, 2023 The narcotics were allegedly dropped at sea by a cargo ship, to be picked up by traffickers and transported to the mainland, where they might be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. Terming it to be one of the largest seizures the nation has ever seen, the police added, “The identification and subsequent seizure of a similar quantity of drugs, one of the largest ever carried out in the national territory, prevented the drug from being likely to be recovered by criminal subjects for subsequent illegal marketing in the national territory, which would have yielded very high earnings, in the order of approximately over 400 million euros at retail.” The discovery comes only a few weeks after New Zealand police in February seized ample cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean to supply the whole domestic market for 30 years.