A Venezuelan National Guard demonstrates a test for the purity of cocaine, during a presentation of confiscated cocaine to the media in Puerto Ordaz in the southern state of Bolivar June 26, 2011. REUTERS/Edwin Montilva
CARACAS (Reuters) - Hidden in a large ochre-coloured container, the 1.4 tonnes of cocaine got past two dozen army checkpoints during a 500-mile journey from the Colombian border to the Venezuelan capital.
The drugs were stored for several days at the Simon Bolivar International Airport outside Caracas, then placed in 31 suitcases with false name-tags and put on an Air France flight to Paris on Sept. 10, 2013.
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