This World Cup can give you a high

Updated on: 05 July,2010 07:27 AM IST |
Agencies |

Football fans worldwide have fashioned replicas of the World Cup trophy out of everything from papier-mache to plastic

Football fans worldwide have fashioned replicas of the World Cup trophy out of everything from papier-mache to plastic. But a lawbreaker in Colombia gets top prize for most original material: cocaine.

A World Cup trophy made out of cocaine has been seized by police in Colombia.

The 36 cm (14 inch) statue was inside a box headed for Madrid, Spain. The statue was painted gold with green stripes on the base.

Piedrahita said that laboratory tests confirmed the cup was made of 11 kilogrammes of cocaine mixed with acetone or gasoline to make it mouldable.

Submarine too
In another development,u00a0 the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) helped Ecuador seize a submarine capable of transporting tons of cocaine.

DEA officials said that the diesel electric-powered submarine was built in a remote jungle and captured near a river close to the Ecuador-Colombia border.

The sophisticated camouflaged vessel has a conning tower, periscope and air-conditioning system. It measured about nine feet high.

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