CANU destroys nearly $3B in seized cocaine, ganja

A packet of cocaine which was discovered hidden in a letter.

Officers of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday morning destroyed almost $3 billion in cocaine and marijuana that made up evidence used in recently-concluded court cases and which head of the unit James Singh called proof of higher seizures.

401 kilogrammes of cocaine, worth approximately US$14 million (GY$2,806,299,957.28), and 30.465 kilogrammes of marijuana, valued between US$150,000 (GY$30,067,499.54) and US$300,000 (GY$70,157,498.93) were destroyed in an