Costa Rica's largest ever cocaine haul found in ornamental flower shipment bound for Netherlands

Police found 5,048 packages of cocaine weighing 1kg each hidden in a container in Limon.

Costa Rica's largest ever haul of cocaine has been seized from a shipment of ornamental flowers bound for the Netherlands.

A ship was due to set sail to Rotterdam on Saturday when the drugs control police detected some suspicious containers. Police arrested a Costa Rican lorry driver, 46, who had delivered the containers to the port and said he has no criminal record.

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