173 kg of cocaine seized at Gioia Tauro

(ANSA) - Gioia Tauro (Reggio Calabria), February 9 - Police on Monday seized 173 kilos of cocaine worth approximately 36 million euros at the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria.
    Finance and customs police found the cocaine hidden in bags inside a container that had arrived from Mexico transporting pectin, a food additive normally used in jams and jellies.
    Gioia Tauro, the Mediterranean's biggest container port, is frequently the subject of probes into infiltration by the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia, which controls the European cocaine trade.