Record cocaine seized worth 66m euros

400kg of cocaine seized by Japanese authorities at Kobe port, an unprecedented amount in the country, worth of eight billion yen (66m euros).

This is a record record, in terms of quantity, for a cocaine sequencing in Japan”, a spokesman for the authorities said.

The previous record was in August when 177kg of cocaine was seized at another port in the Aichi Prefecture.

Traffickers may have missent the shipment to Kobe, sources announced near the investigation, under which cargo was found in shipping containers.

Drug trafficking in the country is one of the main sources of income for the local criminal group, Yakuza, Periscopi notes.