Cocaine weighing nearly four tons estimated to be worth 260 million US dollars seized apparatus from ships sailing in the Atlantic Ocean.
The combined apparatus comprising Spanish customs and police and the National Crime Eradication Council (NCA) of England found 165 cocaine packages weighing 23 kg each or a total of 3.7 tons, hidden under the galley of the ship.
Not clear yet where the narcotics will be taken. The ship itself was sailing between the Madeira Islands and the Azores, Portugal, as reported by the BBC on Monday (9/10/2017).
After the discovery of cocaine, the Comoros-flagged ship was withdrawn to the Port of Cadiz, Spain. The crew, originally from Turkey and Azerbaijan, were detained.
The joint operation of the apparatus was held under the coordination of the Maritime Anti-Narcotics and Analysis Center (MAOC-N) centered in Lisbon, Portugal
"The confiscation of cocaine in this amount is a major blow to international criminal groups, as they lose out on hundreds of millions of pounds," said NCA spokesman Mark Blackwell.
Before this seizure, there were two similar operations in the Atlantic Ocean recently.
A total of 13 Moroccan Spanish descendants were arrested on Monday (2/10/2017) for possession of the largest 2.5 ton cocaine-drug seizure in northern Africa.
The addictive substance is thought to have come from Venezuela to Europe or the United Arab Emirates.
Moroccan Chief of Investigation, Abdelhak Khiam, said the South American drug cartel was deliberately using smuggling routes through sub-Saharan countries because there was minimal supervision in the region.
The Portuguese Navy and Air Force were also reportedly confiscated narcotics smuggled on a ship, 965 kilometers south of the Azores.
Ships that depart from the Caribbean region, as reported Portugal News Online, bringing the estimated pure cocaine worth 23.5 million dollars
