Google – AFP, 23 March 2014
German
customs officers present 100 kg of cocaine during a press
conference in Berlin,
on August 19, 2011 (DPA/AFP/File, Wolfgang Kumm)
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Berlin —
German customs officials have intercepted a package addressed to the Vatican
containing 14 condoms filled with cocaine, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Bild am
Sonntag said that a box packed with 340 grammes of cocaine valued at 40,000
euros ($55,200) were seized at the international airport in the eastern city of
Leipzig in January.
The
narcotics, posted from an unnamed South American country, were in liquid form
and had been poured into the condoms and placed in the package addressed to the
main postal centre at the Vatican.
The
newspaper, citing a German customs report, said authorities handed the package
with the drugs to a police officer at the Vatican with the aim of laying a trap
for a culprit who might try to claim it.
But Bild
said the parcel had remained there since January.
German
investigators believe the intended recipient, who remains unknown, was likely
tipped off that the package had been intercepted, the newspaper said.
The Vatican
office of Interpol is now working on the investigation with German police,
according to the report.
German
customs authorities could not immediately be reached for comment.
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