WELLINGTON: After seize a big shipment of cocaine drifting in the Pacific Ocean, police announced Wednesday that they had found enough cocaine to supply New Zealand for 30 years.
The seizure, which included 81 bales of cocaine, weighed 3.2 tonnes and had a street worth of about $316 million, according to New Zealand police commissioner Andrew Coster.
However, He declared, “By a significant margin, this is the largest find of illicit substances by New Zealand’s authorities.”
additionally, In the Pacific Ocean, where they would have been picked up and transported to Australia, officials think the pills were dropped at a “floating transit site.”
The enormous haul was confined by netting and draped in yellow floats, as seen in a police photograph. The bundles of cocaine inside the bales were labelled with what seemed to be a four-leaf clover print, and some of the bales had the Batman logo on them.
We think it was intended for Australia, where it would have been sufficient to supply the market for a year, according to Coster.
It would take 30 years for New Zealand to use it all.
Thanks in part to intelligence from the “Five Eyes” collaboration, a naval boat was able to intercept the bundle as it was drifting hundreds of kilometres northwest of New Zealand.
Furthermore, The US, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand are all members of the network that has shared intelligence for many years.
The bust, according to Coster, was a “great result” for Australian and New Zealandian police.
Without a doubt, the South American manufacturers as well as the distributors of this product would suffer financially as a result of this revelation, he continued.
Authorities stated that it was too soon to speculate on the origin of the medicines.