The Telegraph

Dutch police find Valentine's Day roses stuffed with cocaine

Feb 11--Dutch police found more than £1 million worth of cocaine in a shipment of 20,000 Valentine's Day roses that arrived at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport from Colombia.

11 de febrero de 2010

Prosecutors said eight kilogrammes of cocaine was hidden in cardboard boxes containing the roses.

It was packaged into 20-gramme cellophane parcels hidden in false panels in 200 flower boxes on a plane from Bogota.
 
Three alleged smugglers were arrested in the Netherlands after the discovery, including the importer.
 
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