£136,000,000 of cocaine seized in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs bust
The Metro says 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 Irish army unit stormed the Panamanian cargo ship suspected of carrying significant amounts of drugs in a major operation on Tuesday.
The large vessel was reportedly attempting to flee when the Naval Service closed in on it off the Co Cork coast.
Two men – from the UK and eastern Europe – have since been arrested under the country’s anti-gangland legislation.