LIMA: Peruvian anti-drug police seized 58 one-kilo packages of cocaine bearing a picture of the Nazi flag on the outside and the name Adolf Hitler printed in low relief.
According to Arab News, the discovery occurred in the port of Paita, on Peru’s northern Pacific coast, close to its border with Ecuador.
The drugs were hidden inside the shipping container carrying asparagus on the Liberian-flagged vessel SC Anisha R that had earlier anchored in the Ecuadorian port of Ecuador, according to a police report obtained by the AP. It said the shipment was destined for the port in Belgium.
The Peruvian police’s anti-drug directorate showed videos and photographs to the AP revealing that the drugs were inside the ventilation system of a container. Police continued to search the more than 80 containers on the vessel.
Peruvian authorities have lastly reported finding cocaine in brick-shaped packages with various and strange symbols, but never with one of the flags of Nazi Germany.
Authorities in Peru estimate that the country produces around 100 tons of drugs per year, and most leave for Europe by sea and through small planes that carry cocaine to Bolivia on its way to Atlantic ports.
According to the United Nations, Peru is the world’s second-largest grower of coca leaf and the world’s second-largest producer of cocaine, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
