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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
John Hand

UN figures show how cocaine starts off at €1,500 per kilo in Colombia and reaches €60,000 per kilo by the time it gets to Ireland

Travel, risk and corruption pushes up the price of cocaine by 46 times between production in South America and when it reaches Ireland’s drug dealers.

As the European global demand for coke soars, overall drug seizures have reached record levels in Ireland – with over €51million worth nabbed by the gardai so far this year.

But the potential rewards for drug barons such as Daniel Kinahan outweigh the risk.

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