Italian authorities seize large cocaine shipment hidden inside banana cargo

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Italian authorities seized roughly 1,700 pounds of high-purity cocaine hidden inside a refrigerated banana shipment that arrived from Ecuador.
The drugs were valued at nearly $290 million.
The seizure highlights how traffickers use fruit shipments to move large quantities of cocaine into Europe.
It also points to concerns about cargo coming through Ecuador's banana export trade.

Whether Italian authorities announce arrests or identify a trafficking network linked to the shipment
Any response or investigation involving Ecuadorian authorities or banana exporters

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