French customs officers at the Port of Dunkirk unsealed a container filled with plastic waste from Ghana on September 7, expecting scrap material. Inside lay 167 bales of cocaine weighing 3.9 metric tonnes, with an estimated street value of €225 million.
The massive shipment, bound for Antwerp in Belgium, triggered an international legal pursuit that has now centered on West Africa.
Ghanaian officials say the main suspect behind the operation, wanted Dutch drug lord Jos Leijdekkers, is currently hiding in Sierra Leone.
PNCO Francis Opoku Amoah, the Acting Director of Public Affairs and International Relations at the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), confirmed the intelligence during an interview on TV3's program The KeyPoints.
He told the station that Dutch
According to 3News.
