Snorting Bananas never really caught on...............
Posted on 05/29/2025 7:17:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
Greek authorities in Thessaloniki located and seized 1.6 mln euros worth of cocaine hidden inside a container of bananas from Ecuador.
Greek authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki located and seized a significant quantity of cocaine hidden inside a container of bananas from Ecuador, reports MEGA TV. During targeted inspections in the early morning hours of Tuesday at the container terminal (SEMBO), fifty plastic packages containing a total of 57.919 kilograms of the narcotic substance were discovered. The packages were carefully concealed within the container’s refrigeration units.
Oddly enough, this is not the first time that a shipment of “cocaine bananas” has been discovered at one of Greece’s port’s. Another shipment was detected by authorities in November of 2024 in a container in Piraeus. At that time the haul was estimated at 4.1 million euros, and the ship originated from Panama.
The more recent operation was conducted by the regional narcotics team of the Central Port Authority of Thessaloniki, with the assistance of the mobile X-ray scanning system of Thessaloniki’s customs office, as part of intensified checks to combat drug trafficking through maritime routes.
In addition to the narcotics, authorities also confiscated the container used to conceal and transport the drugs, as well as a portable GPS tracking device found alongside the substances, possibly intended for monitoring the cargo’s route.
The preliminary investigation is being carried out by the Central Port Authority of Thessaloniki, while the estimated value of the seized quantity is approximately €1,600,000.
Now wait a minute... maybe the smugglers were hiding bananas in the cocaine...
Sometimes I think smugglers are just toying with the police and allowing these busts to keep them distracted from looking elsewhere...................
Well, at least it wasn’t a deadly black tarantula!
When I was a kid, in the 50’s and 60’s, our small town grocery store had a tarantula in the bananas!.............
I think nowadays they spray them with a gas that kills any bugs...........
Yes, we have blow bananas, we have blow bananas today!
Snorting Bananas never really caught on...............
Hey, mister tally man, tally me banana.
Where’s Hunter?
It certainly would explain the apeel.
You had to slip that one on in, didn’t you?
Because otherwise, it would have been a hard case to crack.
Clearly one of the smugglers slipped up.
No mention if any of those monkeys are even in custardy.
With so much corruption these days, they may have “escAped” to a banana republic, no questions mashed.
They’d better put a tail on at least one of them.
The coke was just happy to be seen.
I wonder if anyone ever tried smuggling coke in a shipment of Pepsi. It would show a sense of whimsy, which is often sorely lacking in criminals.
Maybe a shipment of busts would work...
There’s no monkeying around in this business.
They’ll be swinging for sure.
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