Cocaine worth $920m seized by Custom officers( 9ja contain)

Customs officials in Hamburg presented a record haul of 3.8 tonnes of cocaine with a street

value of $920m to the media on Thursday.

The haul, which originated in South America, was displayed under tight security in a military

barracks in the northern port city of Hamburg.

The drugs, which were stacked before the press in

 colourful, shrink-wrapped plastic packages, were

seized in three batches during customs operations in

Hamburg’s harbour earlier in the year.

The haul was the first time several tonnes of class `A’

drugs were seized by German customs.