Brasília, January 22, 2004 (Agência Brasil - ABr) - German customs officials in Hamburg, in the north of the country, announced the seizure of cocaine worth 13 million euros in a Brazilian cargo vessel. During a routine inspection, the Hamburg port officials discovered 255 packages of the drug, each containing a kilo of cocaine, hidden under the false bottom of a container supposed to be full of plastic boxes. A spokesman from the Hamburg state prosecutors office said that no arrests were made in Germany but investigations are being conducted in various countries, none of which was named.

This information comes from Radio Nederland. (DAS)