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UK Police Bust Massive Cocaine Shipment

Dutch police help intercept English boat carrying ketamine
February 22, 2024

Dutch police assisted in a British operation in which 200 kilos of ketamine were seized on a ship that left Amsterdam and was intercepted in England. Five English men have been arrested.

British police arrested two Englishmen who smuggled the ketamine from the Netherlands to England, and three who helped with the transport. They were arrested in the early morning of February 17. This was after the cargo had been unloaded at a quay on the River Deben in Suffolk, a county in the east of England. The ketamine was then transported by car to a warehouse in Rendlesham. The police found the drugs there after a search.

The National Crime Agency said in a statement on Thursday that the discovery of the drugs is the result of a long-running investigation into the smuggling of drugs from international waters into England.

The action is called a 'fantastic example' of cooperation with the Dutch police and judiciary in combating the overseas drug trade and stopping the smuggling of an 'enormous amount of ketamine', which the police suspect was intended for the English market.

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Fishing boat
3.1 tons of coke were found on a fishing boat sailing under the Panamanian flag about 2,000 kilometers from the French Antilles. There were four people on board. About 600 kilometers southeast of Martinique, the investigative services found a ton of cocaine on a sailing boat with four people on board.

Venezuela
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Credit: James O’Brien/OCCRP
by Kevin G. Hall (OCCRP), Nathan Jaccard (OCCRP), Jacqueline Charles (Miami Herald), and Juanita Vélez (CLIP-OCCRP)
14 December 2023

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Surinamese police find 600 kilos of coke on plane bound for Amsterdam

The Surinamese police found almost 600 kilos of cocaine in a Surinam Airways plane bound for Amsterdam. The drugs were contained in seventeen boxes that were hidden in the engine room at the bottom of the cockpit, according to a special police drug unit.

Surinam Airways technicians received a report of "an irregularity" in the aircraft and investigated. After the drugs were found, the police's Combating International Drugs Team (BID team) was called in.

The plane was delayed for hours due to the discovery of the drugs, but eventually departed from Suriname's international airport.

Cooperation
A few days ago, the Netherlands and Suriname announced that they wanted to tackle drug smuggling together. Customs officers from both countries will follow training together and exchange information about smuggling methods.

Last year, the Netherlands intercepted 523 kilos of drugs from Suriname. A year earlier that was still 1,187 kilos.