Rene Matschke, head of the Hamburg customs investigation office, said on Friday the cocaine – the largest single seizure of the drug in Germany to date – had a very high degree of purity, news agency dpa reported.
The haul – weighing 1,580lbs – was seized on January 18 after it was found in a shipping container from the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao.
Mr Matschke said that an international gang was behind the cocaine shipment and that there was a hostage-taking linked to the drugs in the Netherlands on Monday.
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