Wholesale price of cocaine increasing due to large-scale drug seizures

Revenue and gardaí have seized more than €103m worth of drugs from January 2023 to June this year. File picture: iStock

There has been a significant increase in the wholesale price of cocaine being imported into the country for the first time, a senior garda has said.

It comes after €33m worth of cocaine and cannabis was discovered concealed in containers at three ports along the east coast in the past week.