{"id":13707,"date":"2021-05-18T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=13707"},"modified":"2021-05-18T12:47:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T12:47:27","slug":"400-kilos-of-cocaine-seized-in-kosovo-masqueraded-as-brazilian-alcoholic-beverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/400-kilos-of-cocaine-seized-in-kosovo-masqueraded-as-brazilian-alcoholic-beverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine worth \u20ac100 million seized in Kosovo masqueraded as Brazilian alcoholic beverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Euronews Albania has secured detailed footage of the cargo containing 400 kilos of cocaine seized at the Kosovar border on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The container busted in Kosovo was offloaded at the port of Durres in Albania masqueraded as the famous Brazilian alcoholic beverage \u201cVelho Barreiro\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Italy\u2019s border police \u201cGuardia di Finanza\u201d came out in a press conference to provide further details about the major drug bust.<\/p>\n<p>The container was initially spotted by Italian authorities in Calabria which signaled the suspicious container and launched a joint operation with Albania and Kosovar authorities to trace the shipment to its destination.<\/p>\n<p>Guardia Di Finanza said it had detained 25 people and arrested 7.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated value of the cocaine seized is \u20ac100 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador of the United States to Albania took it to Twitter to praise the \u201cstrong cooperation between SPAK, law enforcement authorities, and DEA\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday\u2019s seizure of 400kg of cocaine is the result of strong cooperation among \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf1 \ud83c\uddfd\ud83c\uddf0 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8. 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