Overview
- Customs and airport police at Ezeiza flagged a courier box declared as sugar on April 24 and found 11 vacuum‑sealed bricks marked with a scorpion.
- Investigators then tied a second parcel to the same scheme, which posed as routine shipments to multinational offices and hid more than 12 kilos inside an air compressor.
- Judge Marcelo Aguinsky ordered the cocaine replaced and approved a controlled delivery coordinated with France’s DNRED and Air France security.
- The staged pickup in Paris led to the arrest of a suspect who arrived to collect a consignment.
- Two French nationals were detained in Montevideo with false documents, and raids in Buenos Aires seized phones and papers now being analyzed for local links and extradition steps.