Quito - Rt
Italian police have discovered nearly 40 kg of cocaine in diplomatic mail sent from Ecuador, the Associated Press reports quoting Ecuador’s foreign minister, Ricardo Patino. Two suspects have been arrested. On Thursday Patino said that Italian police had asked permission last month before opening eight crates and finding the drugs. He added that the crates had been inspected before leaving Ecuador but had traveled to Italy through a third country. Patino said that one of the arrested is Christian Loor, an Ecuadorean who obtained the Foreign Ministry’s permission to use its diplomatic mail to send objects for a theatrical production promoting Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.