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Customs authorities in Hamburg and Antwerp have seized a record haul of more than 23 tonnes of cocaine destined for the Netherlands in two raids this month, Dutch prosecutors said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The two shipments together represented a street value of roughly 600 million euros ($730 million), the prosecutors said, making it the biggest catch of cocaine headed for the Netherlands ever.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Prosecutors said a 28-year old Dutchman had been arrested on Wednesday who was registered as the recipient of the containers in which the drugs were found.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Hamburg, Germany, 16.17 tonnes of cocaine were found in over 1,700 tins of wall filler which had arrived on a containership from Paraguay.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the Belgian port of Antwerp around 7.2 tonnes of the drugs was found hidden in a container filled with wood blocks which had been shipped from Panama.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On Tuesday, Dutch customs officers announced the largest heroin haul ever found in one bust in the Netherlands – more than 1,500 kg of heroin discovered in the port of Rotterdam.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ($1 = 0.8224 euros)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Angus MacSwan)<\/em><\/p>\n maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Customs authorities in Hamburg and Antwerp have seized a record haul of more than 23 tonnes of cocaine destined for the Netherlands in two raids this month, Dutch prosecutors said on Wednesday. The two shipments together represented a street value of roughly 600 million euros ($730 million), the prosecutors said, making it the biggest catch …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2477,2476,982,697,2647,137],"class_list":["post-25836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-bust","tag-cocaine","tag-containership","tag-dutch","tag-record","tag-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/25837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}