00:00Liberian law enforcement agents have burnt some 4.2 metric tons of cocaine worth about $336 million.
00:09The action comes after the country's largest ever drug seizure, which implicated senior police officials.
00:15Authorities say investigators identified officers who allegedly helped escort the cocaine.
00:21The police chief of highway patrol and the head of major crimes have been charged, while a deputy police commander
00:29is also a subject.
00:31The justice minister says the cocaine was recovered during a raid near the capital, Monrovia.
00:37Liberia's police and drug enforcement agency also banned cocaine seized in June.
00:42The operation revealed an organized sophisticated complex and well-funded narcotic trafficking networks that may have been working in Liberia
00:50for more than six years.
00:51West Africa has become a key transit route for cocaine traffic from South America to Europe.
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