Another massive drug seizure in Durban

A two-month-long SAPS intelligence-driven operation culminated in the multi-million-rand drug bust. 

This comes as police have been tracking various containers which arrived in the country via the Durban Harbour from Brazil on Friday. 

Two-hundred-and-twenty-eight blocks of cocaine were found concealed in meat boxes and disguised as such.

This is the second shipment to be seized in as many days after R70 million worth of cocaine was also seized from a container at the Durban Harbour. 

The total of seized shipments is R150 million. 

National police commissioner Fannie Masemola says investigations are underway to establish the final destination of the drugs. 

"The SAPS is hard at work in disrupting and dismantling transnational organised crime that poses a significant threat to the communities we serve,” he says.  

"We continue to intensify and strengthen the detection of drug trafficking and associated organised crime. We are intensifying our safer festive operations, and there are more takedowns to come from the SAPS. We are warning those involved in such activities to either surrender, or we will continue to sniff them out." 

The case is to be handed over to the Hawks for further investigations. 

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