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.

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

Customs officials in Antwerp, Belgium seized some 547 kilos of cocaine inside a container with rice that left the port of Montevideo. The catch took place at the end of February and involved the ...

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 ...

Antwerp, and Rotterdam. In last year’s investigation, Europol seized 35 metric tonnes (approximately 38 tons) of cocaine at these ports – all of it sourced in Ecuador and shipped from Colombia ...

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 ...

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 ...

Journalists are being actively bribed and threatened to stop reporting on wanted Dutch drug trafficker Jos Leijdekkers, also ...

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