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$70 million at best
Several years ago the local news reported of guys guys busted by the Feds. The asking price was $14,000 per key. A few years earlier there was a bust and the guy would have to be charging $2000 per gram to come up with the $ amount the local cops claimed.
Look carefully at the picture. There's at least a dozen different wrappings of the keys. They come from different labs for different groups. Each group throws in a few keys for shipment. That way if there is a bust, no group suffers a serious loss.
This bust at worst cost them a week's shipment. Annual production is estimated to be 350-600 metric tonnes.
And this is just a Colombian shipment. Most now comes through Mexico.
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