{"id":32969,"date":"2020-12-11T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T10:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tabadul.demo.ly\/en\/malta-seizes-record-cocaine-haul-bound-for-libya\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T10:10:24","slug":"malta-seizes-record-cocaine-haul-bound-for-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/malta-seizes-record-cocaine-haul-bound-for-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta seizes record cocaine haul bound for Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maltese authorities seized more than 600kg (1,300 lbs) of cocaine being sent to Libya in a record-breaking haul worth some 70 million euros ($85 million), the customs department said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cocaine was being shipped from Ecuador and Columbia and was discovered hidden in a container on a ship at Malta Freeport late on Wednesday, the department said in a statement. Police have opened an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customs said officials had seized 510 packets weighing 1.2kg each in what it described as a record-breaking seizure from a single container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo get a better perspective, during the whole of 2019 a total of 750kg (worth 84.5 million euro) were intercepted by Customs from 16 containers,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maltese authorities seized more than 600kg (1,300 lbs) of cocaine being sent to Libya in a record-breaking haul worth some 70 million euros ($85 million), the customs department said on Thursday. The cocaine was being shipped from Ecuador and Columbia and was discovered hidden in a container on a ship at Malta Freeport late on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9271],"tags":[10982],"class_list":["post-32969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cocainecustoms-authoritylibyamaltamaltese-authorities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}