AMSTERDAM: A massive shipment of heroin destined for Liverpool was stopped by the authorities in the Netherlands.
Customs officers discovered 58kg of the Class A drug when they searched a container on a ship as it travelled through Rotterdam.
The cargo is thought to have been sent from Iran – often used as a transit route by drug traffickers looking to move heroin produced in neighbouring Afghanistan to other parts of the world.
Dutch officials swooped on the shipment when it went through the port city in January.An image released by the Dutch public prosecutions service showed some of the drugs hidden beneath a tabletop.
