There was just enough plastic wrapping to keep the cocaine from getting wet without weighing it down and possibly sinking it.
Boxes containing cocaine float in the Sicilian Strait off Catania in this picture made available by the Italian Financial Police on Monday, April 17, 2023. Some two thousand kilograms of cocaine, left afloat in open waters with a tracking device attached, were sized by the Italian Financial Police on Monday. ROME — Italian police scooped up two tons of cocaine, wrapped in protective plastic and bobbing in the sea off eastern Sicily, authorities said Monday.
The financial police squad estimated that the recent “catch” would have fetched about 400 million euros in street sales.The packages of cocaine were strung together with netting, police said in a statement. Investigators hypothesized that a cargo ship left it in the sea as part of a scheme for another vessel to come along and eventually bring it to land. Police aircraft flew over the area of sea as a precaution to spot any other cocaine bundles that might have separated from the netting.
In all, police scooped up more than 1,600 packets of cocaine held in 70 bobbing bundles, the statement said.
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