Police authorities have seized more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine, with an estimated street value of $570 million, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal.
The drug was found aboard an ultra-fast ocean-going rigid inflatable boat, which smugglers typically use to recover illicit cargoes dropped at sea by large ships arriving from South America.
Four people aboard the vessel were arrested – two Spaniards, a Gibraltar resident and an Albanian man living in Italy.
The operation was conducted in cooperation with Spanish and Portuguese authorities, with Italian prosecutors in the northern city of Brescia coordinating investigations.
Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
