$85 Million Worth Of Lionel Messi Branded Cocaine Sezed In Peru

Law enforcement authorities in Peru a weekend ago made an alternate sort of score than the one soccer star Lionel Messi usually mkaes when they seized 1,417 kilos of cocaine bearing the FC Barcelona star's name.

The cocaine, worth an expected $85 million in the city, was found inside holders of squid filets and bound for Belgium. The shipment was gone to the port territory of Callao in the wake of advancing overland to the capital of Lima.

Drug trafficking from Peruvian ports is accepted to have ascended since another law approving the military to shoot down medication pirating airplanes in the wilderness was passed in 2015.

“Most of the 1,288 packages of drugs were camouflaged as squid filets and had a label that said ‘Messi’ along with a picture of the Argentina player Lionel Messi wearing the shirt of the Spanish club Barcelona,” a press release from the Peruvian National Police’s Anti-drugs Office (Dirandro) stated.

No one has been arrested or detained in connection to the cocaine shipment, but Mexican drug cartels are believed to be involved in the trade, the release said.

“There is no doubt that this is an international organisation. And it is likely that the Mexican Sinaloa cartel is behind this thwarted shipment.” the release stated