Cocaine worth MVR 3 million has been confiscated from a foreigner traveling to Maldives.

According to Maldives Police Service, in a joint operation with Maldives Customs Service saw them confiscating 1.144 kilos of Cocaine.

Police also added that the street value of the cocaine would be about MVR 3 million.

Police had recently found 150 kilos of narcotics buried in an uninhabited island as well.