The commercial customs brigade of Kalifourou, in southern Senegal, seized 108.7 kg of cocaine, worth 8.7 billion CFA francs, Senegalese customs said in a press release on Saturday.
According to the same source, this operation was carried out on Thursday, following the “targeting of a Jeep Grand Cherokee brand vehicle coming from a neighboring country and driven by an individual from a Sahel country”.
“The thorough search of the said vehicle revealed the presence of a hiding place set up below the rear trunk and carefully concealed under a carpet and a spare tire,” the press release said.
The opening of this hiding place made it possible to discover 95 packages of cocaine, for a total weight of 108.7 kg, the total value of the seizure being estimated at “eight billion seven hundred million (8,700,000,000) of CFA francs”, adds the press release noting that customs agents found on the driver of the vehicle “foreign currencies and a large sum of money in CFA francs”.
Senegalese customs recently seized several quantities of cocaine in different parts of the country, as part of the fight against illicit drug trafficking.
On March 31, customs services seized 91.84 kg of cocaine, and in mid-April a quantity of 1,137.6 kg of cocaine in the east of the country.
