In the port of Livorno, officials from the local Anti-Fraud Department of the Customs Office and the financiers of the Livorno Group have A load of over two tons of cocaine was seized. The huge quantity of drugs, divided into 1,800 loaves, was hidden inside a container containing cocoa powder and embarked on the cargo ship Mersin Express from the port of Guayaquil, in Ecuador.

The Livorno Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza has made it known that, on the drug dealing squares, the drug would have yielded over 500 million euros. The cocaine seized, sampled and analyzed by the laboratory of the local Agency of Customs and Monopolies, has already been destroyed at a incinerator in Tuscany.