Police also released video footage showing equipment, including a series of cement mixers and barrels of chemicals.
“This is the largest cocaine laboratory ever found in the Netherlands,” said André van Rijn, chief inspector of the National Facility for Dismantling Support (LFO), which is dismantling the lab.
“Given the number of people working there, the installation, the size, the equipment and the equipment, we estimate the production capacity at 150 to 200 kilos of cocaine per day.”
This amount of drugs is worth € 4.5 million – € 6 million ($ 5.3 million – $ 7.1 million), added by Rhine.
Police raided the installation, such as warehouses in Elshout and Apeldoorn, on 7 August. They found tens of thousands of liters of chemicals used to make cocaine, 100 kilograms of cocaine base and 120,000 kilograms (265,000 pounds) of carrier material, which is used to smuggle the drug.
Of the 17 people arrested, three were Dutch, one Turkish and 13 Colombian.
They are suspected of producing drugs and will appear before a magistrate on 12 and 13 August.
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