412 kg of cocaine seized in La Spezia port

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 14 - Italian police on Friday seized some 412 kilogrammes of cocaine in the port of La Spezia near Genoa.
    The drugs were contained in a container from the Dominican Republic heading for the port of Valencia in Spain.
    They had a false seal on them, police said.
    The cocaine, hidden in a shipment of paper pulp, was split into 12 packages each containing 359 bars ready to be offloaded in the so-called rip-off system whereby drugs are placed behind the container's doors so that traffickers have easy access to them in the port areas.
    The cocaine was extremely pure and very high quality, police said.
    It had a street value of over 100 million euros. (ANSA).