The largest drug confiscation in history..flour and sugar

A former federal police officer in Mexico revealed that what was believed to be the largest cocaine seizure in the world was actually just bags of flour and sugar, in a first-of-its-kind revelation, according to global media today.

The officer revealed the shocking information yesterday during the trial of Genaro García Luna, the former Minister of Public Security in Mexico, after he was accused of receiving millions of dollars in bribe payments from the drug cartel known as Sinaloa and its notorious leader, Joaquín "El Chapo Guzman".

Former Mexican federal police officer Sergio Villarreal Barragán, better known as El Grande, who worked for drug chief Arturo Beltrán Leyva, gave evidence yesterday of the astronomical level of corruption that prevails in the police sector.

 The officer claimed that the cocaine seized in the famous and record-breaking operation of seizing 26 tons of cocaine in the coastal city of Manzanillo in 2007 was not what it seemed at the time, stressing that the confiscations were owned by the Beltran Levy organization and that the criminal organization was able to recover it with a simple trick.

He told the court that the famous cartel had set up “a small factory to produce fake cocaine using sugar and flour, and pressed the mixture into molds.” “We were packing (counterfeit drugs) as if they were any other cocaine molds,” he told the court.

According to the Daily Star, the officer said the fake cocaine blocks were lacquered to make them shiny before corrupt customs officials exchanged them for what was seized.

Mexican authorities said at the time that more than 21,000 packages of cocaine were found on the ship in 2007. At the time they hailed it as a sign of the government's "commitment to disrupting drug lords and bringing them to justice".

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