A huge quantity of cocaine has been seized during a raid on a suspected illegal storage facility near Monrovia, in what authorities say is the biggest drugs bust in the country's history. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing BBC News.
Police chief Gregory Coleman told the BBC that forensic tests had confirmed the substance was cocaine, with an estimated street value of more than $370m (£220m). Several people were arrested during the raid in Duazon, including two foreigners and several Liberians. No formal charges have yet been announced.
Coleman said the seizure was the result of a long-running investigation into suspected drug-trafficking networks. Between 2018 and 2023, there was a resurgence of major trafficking in Liberia. Police had been surveilling them for the past one-and-a-half years.
One of the arrested foreigners was carrying two passports – a Spanish one and a Colombian one – while the other held a Serbian passport. It is still unclear from where the drugs originated or their intended destination.
Liberian Vice-President Jeremiah Koung praised the security forces and said whoever was found culpable would "feel the full weight of the law". The Duazon operation follows the interception of six cargo boxes at Roberts International Airport last month, containing nearly 200 compressed blocks of cocaine. That seizure sparked political controversy.
West Africa has long been regarded as a key transit route for cocaine trafficked from South America to Europe. According to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, at least 30% of cocaine destined for Europe now passes through the region. Cocaine seizures in West Africa reached about 30 tonnes in 2025.