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Trinidad Customs concerned in multi-million-dollar drug bust


Trinidad’s Customs and Excise Division Tuesday mentioned it had intercepted an estimated eight million {dollars} (One TT greenback=US$0.16 cents) price of marijuana at its important port in Port of Spain. It’s believed the container originated from Ontario in Canada.

In a press release, the division mentioned the medicine had been discovered at a transit shed on the port on Monday whereas officers had been conducting a routine examination of imported cargo after they found the 28.88 kilograms of the drug with a avenue worth of TT$8.66 million.

Customs mentioned the cargo consisted of 18 packets wrapped in black plastic and hid in a false compartment of a big picket crate.

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The authorities mentioned they’d additionally seized marijuana with a avenue worth of TT$72,000 at TTPost after officers had examined cargo imported from Canada.

The Customs and Excise Division mentioned within the assertion investigations are persevering with and arrests are imminent in each issues.

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