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200 kg cocaine seized in Lagos
• 21 Jun 2007 •
 JUDICIAL Police (PJ) officers in Lagos have uncovered 202 kilos of cocaine in a sailing yacht.
The only crew member, who according to the police is a thirty-year-old national of a European country, was arrested. A Portimão PJ spokesman said that the cocaine, with a street value of approximately eight million euros, was extremely well hidden and it took more than two hours for the investigators to find it in a specially prepared sealed compartment which could only be accessed by breaking into the cavity. The drug was enough for two million and twenty thousand individual doses. According to the police, the Spanish registered sailing yacht, named “Wendy”, was bought by a drug traffickers’ gang in Miami and was transformed to be able to make long sea voyages. The European authorities were already investigating the yacht’s activities, and when the “Wendy” skipper communicated he was coming to the Lagos Marina because his yacht needed some repairs, the local tribunal was asked by customs authorities to issue a search warrant.
Portuguese police said they were helped by the Spanish and French authorities, as well as the Maritime Analysis and Operation Centre– Narcotics(MAOC–N), an EU operational body which is being set up to tackle maritime drug smuggling in Europe. Currently in its final developmental phase, MAOC–N will be fully established in Lisbon later this year. It has the status of an informal inter-governmental working group or taskforce comprising seven EU Member States: France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. MAOC–N’s mission will be to enhance criminal intelligence and coordinate police action on the high seas, with a view to intercepting vessels carrying cocaine and cannabis. Naval and law-enforcement bodies (police, customs) participate in MAOC–N, although the latter will lead the operations. |  Return to Top
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