Norwegian fruit staff were stunned when found a package cocaine In a box with bananas, warning customs officials who found a stock of 147 kilograms said on Monday. The lunteer noted the latter in a line of incidents associated with cocaine, which is manifested in the shipment containing the fruit.
It is assumed that the departure found in nine bananas boxes has a street value of 170 million crowns ($ 16.4 million) and is the largest in the Scandinavian country since 2023, when a total of 2.3 tonnes, found, 2.3 tonnes. Norwegian customs said in his statement.
Recently, a dozen banana pallets came to the warehouse and reviewed with scanning equipment, and the scanned image “showed violations in some boxes on the pallet,” officials said, noting that customs officers also carried out dogs.
Drugs were smuggling the sea from South America, and then on the trailer through Sweden, although they were probably not intended for the Norwegian market.
“There is a specific information that suggests that cocaine should be taken into the port of Antwerp based on information through international cooperation with the Europol and Belgium authorities,” the statement said.
Norway customs 
Official Customs Tim Gurik said a large criminal network is probably behind the smuggling.
“A large number of financial and organizational muscles, which are only large criminal networks, requires a large number of financial and organizational muscles,” he said.
“We see that the criminal networks behind the smuggling are ready to risk and adapt.”
In recent months, cocaine has been found hidden in banana supplies around the world.
Last December, the authorities in the Dominican Republic confiscated Almost 9.5 tons of cocaine From the shipment of the banana in the most important seaside of the country.
In August 2024, customs officers confiscated more than 200 pounds of cocaine In a port in Greece from a ship that carried fruit. A month before, police dogs in Ecuador helped find More than six tons of cocaine Hidden in banana sent to Germany.
Last March, Bulgarian customs officers were confiscated 170 kilograms of cocaine from a ship carrying bananas from Ecuador.
A month before, the British authorities said they found More than 12 500 pounds Cocaine, hidden in the shipment of fruit, beating the record for the biggest single of solid drugs in the country.
In August 2023, customs agents in the Netherlands confiscated 17 600 pounds of cocaine Found hidden inside the banana box in the port of Rotterdam. Three months before it found a police dog 3 tons of cocaine Hidden in the case of bananas in the Italian port of Jia Tauro.