Following a fraud notification to the Mono-Couffo Rapid Response Service, the Chief Service dispatched on 27 August 2020 at approximately 02 hours, a team on the Hilla-Condji/Cotonou interstate road.

The downhill of the agents in the field led to an investigation following a prosecution of two mini buses registered respectively BJ 3981 RB and AX 2585 RB.

A summary search carried out at the scene revealed for the first of the vehicles, baby diaper packages and notebooks, while for the second one whose occupants have meanwhile fled, counterfeit drug packages have been discovered in addition to a laptop, which will be made available to the Directorate of Intelligence and Customs Investigations, in order to facilitate the overlapping to dismantle the network.

The unloading of the AX 2585 RB vehicle at the unit's headquarters resulted in 50 (50) packages of pharmaceutical products weighing approximately one thousand three hundred and sixty-four (1364) kg.

An application shall be made to the President of the competent court of first instance for an application for confiscation and destruction of the seized goods.

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