Customs seize four containers of cocaine

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Customs officers have seized 350 kilograms of cocaine amounting to Rs. 06 billion loaded in four containers at the Colombo Port.

These containers of cocaine had arrived at the Colombo Port from Panama via Belgium and Saudi Arabia and was ready to be shipped backed to India.

The papers claimed the containers contained scarp metal but a search carried out by the Ports Authority of Sri Lanka Customs revealed that the containers of cocaine had been imported under the pretext of scarp metal.

The cocaine stocks will be handed over to the Police Narcotics Bureau upon preliminary investigations.

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