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A MASSIVE HAUL of cocaine – worth an estimated €220 million – has been seized in the Atlantic Ocean.
The 3.7 tonne quantity of cocaine was found on a tugboat around 400 miles from the Spanish coast, between the Azores islands and Madeira.
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said it tipped off Spanish authorities, who caught up the tugboat named Thoran on 1 October.
After an extensive search, 165 individual packages of cocaine were found in a “sophisticated concealment beneath the gallery floor”.
Inside each one was approximately 23kg of powder. It is not known where the drugs would have eventually ended up.
Seven crew members on board – six men from Turkey and one from Azerbaijan – were arrested by Spanish officers, and the boat was towed into the Spanish port of Cadiz on Friday 6 October.
Mark Blackwell, of the NCA, said: “Seizing this quantity of cocaine represents a major disruption to international crime groups, depriving them of revenue potentially running into the hundreds of millions of pounds.
We’re working with colleagues in Europe and around the world to disrupt organised criminals in any way we can, and to protect UK and European borders from attempts to smuggle illegal commodities through them.
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I think it may have been under the galley floor rather than the gallery floor
@Nick Allen: Beside the library?
@Gillian Weir Scully: next to the luncheonette.
@Hank: I the drawing room with the lead piping..
That’s my weekend ruined.
Hope boat is cut up and used for salvage. Hope Cocaine is used for addicts or in world wide Opperations for free. Hope drug runners are sent to live where ever the boat and cocaine came from and never to see their families again and also remove their passports and take their DNA.
Well done to authorities give them money to train sniffer dogs to make their job easier.
@Gillian
Its a big waste of time. It seems the more resources are thrown at disrupting supply, the more drugs available.
A new approach is needed asap
@Gillian Weir Scully: salvage
verb
1.
rescue (a wrecked or disabled ship or its cargo) from loss at sea.
@Gillian Weir Scully: cocaine is used for addicts ?? My god you really have absolutely no clue.. you cant treat cocaine addiction with more cocaine !! Thats like giving an alcoholic more beer to help them along..
@Ollie Payne: What do they take, then? I’d assumed the same thing, to taper them off.
This will make no difference whatsoever to the availability of cocaine for whoever wants it.
Except it will be cut with extra substances making it even more dangerous.
Good effort by law enforcement but a futile waste of time.
Someone’s head will likely roll over this, great catch by the cops!
‘It is not known where the drugs would end up’?…”Oh me, me me, please Sir, ask me!!!
i did like the part that said ‘there not sure where the cocaine was going to end up’
Well i thought up the noses of quite a few people!!!
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