Belgian authorities said on Friday they had seized almost five tons of cocaine stashed in shipping containers at Antwerp port, as part of a cross-border investigation into a drug-trafficking ring.

The port of Antwerp in Belgium is largely seen as the capital of cocaine trafficking in Europe. Corruption and violence are now on the rise and the drug is widely available on the streets.

The shipment was being transported from Montevideo in Uruguay, via Hamburg, to Antwerp, Belgium. German customs have confiscated a record 4.5 metric tons (5 short tons) of cocaine in a shipping ...

He was recruited by a corrupt counternarcotics police officer to work for the Albanian mafia, one of Europe's most prolific ...

5 tons of cocaine destined for Antwerp. Belgian customs intercepted the container, which was filled with rice from Paraguay, on 12 June and informed the Dutch police. The drugs had an estimated ...

A drug smuggler tried to hide £22.8m worth of cocaine under dry ice by pretending it was destined for a London hospital. Bart ...

A Belgian drug trafficker who tried to smuggle cocaine worth nearly £23 million into the UK by disguising it as a dry ice ...

A lorry driver who thought he was delivering dry ice to a hospital actually had 285 kilos of cocaine hidden in the truck.

For example, Belgian customs authorities at the port of Antwerp can only open and check about one percent ... harbor APM Terminals Moín in Costa Rica were charged with smuggling cocaine to Europe. At ...

In 2023, he and his team intercepted 116 tons of cocaine at the port of Antwerp – a new record, as has been the case each year since 2014 (see chart.) And so much that customs officers cannot ...