Cocaine shipment worth $227,000 found hidden within 12 Diego Maradona paintings that drug trafficker tried to smuggle into Turkey
Customs agents at Istanbul Airport scored a huge goal Wednesday against a drug trafficking network when officers discovered cocaine concealed inside portraits of the late Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona. The cocaine shipment - 2.65 kilos worth $227,000 - was being smuggled by a 72-year-old German man who had arrived on a flight from Colombia. The suspect, whose name has not been released by Turkish authorities, drew the attention of the agents when the x-ray machine detected his suspicious luggage. A sniffer dog subsequently then alerted the customs officials, who removed his belongings for a secondary inspection. Customs agents at Turkey's Istanbul Airport seized 2.65 kilos of cocaine from 12 paintings of late soccer legend Diego Maradona in the luggage of a 72-year-old German man who arrived on a flight from Colombia on Wednesday. The suspect, whose name was not released by authorities, remains in custody A customs agent at Istanbul Airport uses a tool to break a portrai