Police seize three tonnes of cocaine in Gioia Tauro

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 16 - Finance police and customs officers said Tuesday that they had seized over 2.7 tonnes of highly pure cocaine in the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro.
    The drugs were hidden in two refrigerated containers amid 78 tonnes of bananas.
    They were on a ship that came from Ecuador and the load was headed to Armenia via the Georgian port of Batumi.
    Calabria is the home region of the 'Ndrangheta mafia.
    It is widely considered to have become Italy's most powerful organized-crime syndicate thanks to its control over much of the cocaine that arrives in Europe and its reach has stretched outside its southern Italian base and gone beyond the country's borders. (ANSA).