In the port of Livorno, Guardia di Finanza agents and customs officials seized 52 blocks of cocaine totaling approximately 60 kilograms, which were discovered in a container from South America. To avoid detection, the cocaine blocks were hidden in the structure of one of the many containers carrying food loads, in this case bananas, destined for large-scale distribution, but the Guardia di Finanza's canine units and scanners supplied to the Customs and Monopoly Agency foiled yet another attempt to introduce another shipment of drugs into national territory. The cocaine was destroyed at the Livorno incinerator after being sampled and analyzed by the Customs Agency's laboratory, as ordered by the Public Prosecutor's Office. If placed on the drug dealing squares, the cargo would have brought organized crime more than $23 million.
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