Cocaine worth $370m seized in Liberia's biggest-ever drugs bust
Cocaine worth $370m was seized on Tuesday during a raid on a suspected illegal storage facility near Liberia's capital, Monrovia. Authorities stated this is the biggest drugs bust in the country's history. Police chief Gregory Coleman told the BBC that forensic tests confirmed the substance was cocaine, with an estimated street value of more than $370m (£220m).
Several people were arrested during the raid in Duazon, a town about 20km (12 miles) east of Monrovia, including two foreigners and several Liberians. No formal charges have yet been announced. Coleman said the seizure was the result of a long-running investigation into suspected drug-trafficking networks operating in Liberia, stating, "Between 2018 and 2023, apparently there was a resurface of major trafficking and transiting in Liberia. Over the last one-and-a-half years, we've been surveilling them and this is the result of that operation." One of the arrested foreigners carried two passports - a Spanish one and a Colombian one - while the other held a Serbian passport. Liberian Vice-President Jeremiah Koung praised the security forces.
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