Four dockers arrested over drugs hidden in coffee in Genoa

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 2 - Four dockers were arrested Thursday in connection with a huge drugs shipment hidden in coffee beans in the port of Genoa a year ago, local sources said.
    Those arrested are an employee of mixed goods workers company CULMV and three port workers, police said.
    They were named as Massimo Malinconico, Alberto Pinto, Natale Giuliano and Rocco Lazzaro.
    Police are searching homes and offices in Genoa, Rome and Reggio Calabria.
    The four have been charged with drug trafficking.
    The shipment of cocaine, weighing some 435 kg, was found on the 'mystery ship' MSCS Adelaide where a sailor with his throat cut was also found.
    The ship had come from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
    The drugs, hidden behind bags of coffee beans, had a street value of some 30 million euros, police said. (ANSA).