Customs has seized another container with €2.7m worth of cocaine, just two days after a 91.2kg haul, bringing the total so far this year to 515.2 kg, worth nearly €58 million.

Last year was a record breaker in terms of cocaine hauls, which saw the Customs Department seizing a total of 284.7 kg of cocaine. This year, in just 14 weeks, the Customs Department has nearly doubled this amount

The 24 kg of cocaine were seized from another reefer container at the Malta Freeport, after several were scanned by the Customs Container Monitoring Unit.

The drugs were found in the refrigerant compressor unit. The container was transhipping in Malta from South America, en-route to Tirana, Albania.

Investigations are being carried out by the Police Anti Drug Squad while a magisterial inquiry has been initiated.

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