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SOMETIMES, YOU JUST get lucky.
Last year, Japanese police seized just 6.6 kilogrammes of cocaine last year, down from 28.7 kilos in 2011.
Then today over 120 kilos of the drug washed up on south of Tokyo.
The haul, valued at around €53 million worth, was stuffed into backpacks has washed up on beaches south of Tokyo in Japan’s biggest-ever seizure, reports said today.
Two more bags were found today after an elderly local resident discovered four drug-filled rucksacks yesterday.
The bags were fitted with buoys and illuminated markers, suggesting that they were part of a sophisticated smuggling operation that had gone wrong.
In all, there were 120 kilos of plastic-wrapped blocks of cocaine inside the bags, which police suspect were lost by seafaring traffickers, the leading Yomiuri Shimbun and other media said.
A police spokesman declined to comment to AFP on the reports.
AFP provided additional reporting
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Is that what you call a high tide?
“The haul is 20 times the amount of the drug seized in Japan last year” – so thy only seized little over 2 million quids worth of coke in Japan last year?
Are you sure that’s right Paul? They seized far more than that in almost any city in Ireland I’d say.
Drugs are very very uncommon in Japan. I am studying here now and I haven’t even heard of any let alone see any. It just isn’t in the culture here
its goin to be a white white christmas.
Change Uni’s David. I would :)
Or open up a head shop there David. You’ll make a fortune fella.
€53 millions worth of Cocaine?
Are you using the manufacturers Recommended Retail Price?
@ David, there’s a sizable magic mushroom culture in Japan, unless things have changed dramatically in the 15 years since I’ve been there.
It s a very clean society !!!!
Cocaine hell of a drug
First Fukushima now this. The lord works in mysterious ways.
Someone’s head is going to roll for that mistake
you guys gotta get some proof readers…badly needed of late.
Cool. You could build a snow man on the beach in the sunshine.
China flies drone over Japan……..Japan finds a shedload of coke on beach……peace offering maybe
I wish you were a diplomat.
thanks SM i think we should go the extra mile for international relations
A cokeheads worst nightmare, €53m worth of Peruvian marching powder and it’s radioactive!!!
I blame Love Hate, or the previous administration…. Not sure which to blame but either is popular for scapegoating :) but someone is in trouble over this.
As DICTATOR of a small island near Japan, I demand the return of my treasury!!
Ps, the position of Igor is once again open.
Would live to find a kilo of coke for myself.
It’s a helluva drug
I wonder if a couple of bodies will follow suite and be washed upon the shores?
Nidge won’t be happy with that mistake
Boats an coke Don’t mix ask the cops on cork
Definitely one haul not to be sniffed at!
Someone will lose more than fingers a or thumbs.
If I caught the feckers I’d rub their bleed’n noses in it…..
Poor.
Contact you local social welfare office. They may be able to help you. If not, I know of a family in England looking for some home help on a long term contract. They recently lost 3 long term employees.
NO SNOW JAPAN THIS CHRISTMAS
Let me guess, they put diesel in the rib instead of petrol..
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