A tactic where gangs use scuba divers to attach cocaine stashes to the hulls of unsuspecting ships is on the rise according to VICE News analysis. But for those who carry out these brazen operations, it can be fatal.
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One of the bags picked up by cocaine money launderer Thi Lieu Le had so much cash in it the undercover Customs officer who observed the handover recorded that she struggled to carry it .
When a student named in court documents simply as ‘Ms Do’ walked into the ASB branch on Auckland’s Queen St and paid $100,000 cash into her account, it was “nothing more than an informal transfer system”. At least that was how she saw it. For Detective Sergeant Andrew Dunhill however, whose undercover Police and Customs team witnessed the transaction on August 15, 2017, it was another name to add to the list.