Video .. seizing half a ton of cocaine hidden in "bananas" in Australia

Australian police managed to arrest a suspect who tried to smuggle drugs using "bananas", as reported by the British newspaper "Daily Mail".

The newspaper added that the police found the 552 kg load inside about 2,000 boxes of banana pulp.

Police arrested the 68-year-old man in a house in Forstville, north of Sydney, last Friday, after they searched his home and found the drug shipment worth nearly $ 248 million.

Police also seized during their mission to his house, cell phones, a laptop, plastic bags of banana pulp, a box and a case of green stones suspected of being emeralds and five silver bars weighing one kilogram.

The man was placed in pretrial detention after his appearance in Sydney Central District Court on Friday, and he will return to court in December.

It is worth noting that the restrictions imposed by Australia to combat the Corona epidemic have not succeeded in preventing drug trafficking, which criminals resort to camouflaging through things such as fruits and other things.