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The Hague —
Dutch law enforcement officers arrested four suspected drug smugglers who
allegedly tried to smuggle millions of euros of cocaine hidden in boxes of
bananas from Colombia, prosecutors said.
Customs,
harbour police and tax officers swooped on a shed in the town of Weesp near
Amsterdam to arrest the men as they came to pick up the stash of drugs on
Wednesday, the Public Prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Officials
however had already discovered the cocaine in the southwestern harbour of
Vlissingen on Monday, aboard a ship from Colombia that brought a consignment of
bananas.
"It
was decided to remove the cocaine but leave the bananas to see who would come
to fetch it," the statement said.
The fruit
were then delivered to a warehouse in Weesp where police made the busts.
The drugs
are valued at around 30 million euros ($40 million).
The four
men will appear in court on drug-related charges on Friday, the statement said.
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