Benin authorities confiscate 54 kg of cocaine from Brazil

Lawani Badirou, a public Benin prosecutor on Tuesday revealed that the security forces confiscated about 54 kilograms of cocaine from a container that had arrived at the main port of Cotonou from Brazil.

Speaking at the news conference, he said the container arrived on Monday carrying a sack containing 48 pellets of suspected product, which was confirmed to be cocaine.
‘There was a sack containing 48 pellets of a suspect product, which was seized on Monday. Tests revealed that this was cocaine.’