He had with him 10 kilos of liquid cocaine , but was discovered and arrested at Florence's Peretola airport by officials of the Customs and Monopolies Agency together with the Guardia di Finanza soldiers .
The protagonist was a Spanish citizen, coming from Lisbon . The drugs were hidden in the luggage inside bottles of shampoo and shaving cream, as well as packages of fruit juices and canned fruit , which the man had declared he was transporting to Italy for some friends. However, given the considerable quantity and the agitated state of the passenger, officials and military carried out a more thorough check, finding the drugs.
The contents of the various packages, over 10 kilos of liquid cocaine, were seized. From subsequent analyses carried out to define the active ingredient, the actual quantity of the substance and the obtainable doses, it emerged that it was about 9 kilos of drugs, from which more than 58,000 doses would have been obtained which, once placed on the market, would have brought in approximately 700,000 euros.
The man was arrested and taken to the Prato prison.
(Online Union)
