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.
Isaac Nana Yaw Annor, popularly known as King Bygone, is a Ghanaian blogger, publicist and digital publisher, and the editor of Accra Posts. He started out with an entertainment blog, wrote more than 389 articles for Opera News, and worked alongside broadcaster Abeiku Santana on media and publicity from 2016 to 2024. He founded The Gospel Post, We Post Weddings, Nsemwokrom, AfroYard and Culture Gossip, and is a certified software engineer (ALX Africa). Avance Media named him among the Top 50 Ghanaian Bloggers in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
