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THE seizure of more than 1,600 kilogrammes of cocaine with an estimated value of US$25 million in Portugal was the result of security cooperation between Trinidad and Tobago and the United States, the US Embassy in Port of Spain has said.

In a news release yesterday, the embassy stated that “on June 14, security co-operation between the United States and Trinidad and Tobago resulted in the seizure of 1,660 kgs of cocaine worth US$25 million in Portugal and the arrest of three foreign nationals”.

It stated further that for several months, agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) based at the embassy in Port of Spain, and officers from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Vetted Unit, the Transnational Organized Crime Unit (TOCU), and the Seaport Cooperation Project (SEACOP) worked a bilateral maritime narcotics trafficking case together.