The agents of the Koungheul Mobile Customs Brigade seized 210 packets of pure cocaine with a total weight of 235 kilograms, an estimated value of eighteen billion eight hundred million (18,800,000,000) CFA francs, learned the APS, Monday from a customs source. The seizure took place Sunday, around 10 am, following the targeting of a single-cabin L200 pick-up from a neighbouring country, specified the Communication and Public Relations Division of the General Directorate of Customs (DGD).

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In a press release, it emphasizes that the in-depth inspection of the vehicle body allowed customs officers to discover, between the chassis and the dumper, a hiding place in which the seized drug packets were hidden. The driver, of foreign nationality, was immediately arrested, and the investigation opened by the local Customs services is ongoing. 

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The same source notes that customs units seized, between March and November 2024, a total of 2,114 kilograms of cocaine on the Dakar-Kidira corridor, representing, in countervalue, on the illicit market, more than one hundred and sixty-nine (169) billion CFA francs.

The Customs Administration « reaffirms its determination to combat transnational organized crime (TOC), particularly international drug trafficking. »

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