The biggest-ever drug seizure in the history of Ireland was intercepted off the coast of Cork in the southeast of the country on Tuesday, Irish police said.
Thursday, September 28, 2023 – Irish customs officers have seized 2,253 kilogrammes of suspected cocaine worth 157 million euro from a cargo vessel off the southeast coast of Ireland. An elite special forces unit stormed the Panamanian cargo ship suspected of carrying significant amounts of drugs in a major operation on Tuesday, September 26. The large…
A joint operation in the Irish Sea on September 26 saw more than 2 tons of cocaine, valued at €157 million, recovered from MV Matthew, a Panamanian registered ship that originated in South America. Gardai say the drugs were "supplied by a South American cartel."
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