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    MV Bianca

    Boat skipper convicted over £80m cocaine cargo

    • March 17, 2017

    The skipper of a fishing boat has been convicted of trying to smuggle around a tonne of cocaine into the UK.

    £50m cocaine found on Norfolk beaches

    Investigation after £50m cocaine found on Norfolk beaches

    • February 10, 2017

    National Crime Agency officers have been called into investigate the discovery of around 360 kilos of cocaine that has washed up on two Norfolk beaches.

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    Australia’s biggest cocaine haul found on yacht

    • February 6, 2017

    Six men, aged between 32 and 66, have been charged with serious drug importation offences after more than 1.4 tonnes of cocaine was seized from a yacht.

    Albernina and Golem - sold

    Seized smuggling 57ft yacht Golem sold for £95,000

    • August 26, 2016

    Golem went for £95,000 in an unreserved Government auction - far less that the £300,000 it sold for a couple of years ago, while Albernina sold for £14,750

    Golem and Albernina

    Seized yacht and motor cruiser to be auctioned

    • August 25, 2016

    Seized drug and weapon smuggling boats - the 57ft yacht Golem and the 38ft motor cruiser Albernina - will be auctioned this evening with no reserve.

    The fishing vessel Bianca. Credit: NCA

    Cocaine worth £80m seized from converted fishing trawler

    • August 22, 2016

    An estimated £80million-worth of cocaine have been seized from a British-registered converted fishing trawler off the coast of Falmouth in Cornwall

    Guilty verdicts after UK’s biggest ever cocaine seizure

    Guilty verdicts after UK’s biggest ever cocaine seizure

    • July 12, 2016

    The total weight of the cocaine taken off the MV Hamal was in excess of 3.2 tonnes.

    Eastbourne Marina - Sovereign Harbour

    £280,000-worth of cannabis seized from yacht

    • June 10, 2016

    Two charged after cannabis worth thousands is found on a yacht at Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne

    The cocaine carrying yacht Golem

    Sailors had £120m cocaine hidden on yacht

    • June 3, 2016

    Two men who sailed a yacht carrying almost a tonne of cocaine across the Atlantic have been sentenced to more than 34 years in prison.

    Crown Copyright

    Yacht intercepted in £12million Caribbean drugs bust

    • April 15, 2016

    The Royal Navy ship HMS Mersey has played a key part in an operation to seize a vessel suspected of smuggling cocaine off Nicaragua.

    Ninth member of Makayabella drugs crime group sentenced

    • March 16, 2016

    Wayne Bush is the ninth person to be convicted over the Makayabella yacht cocaine-smuggling plot

    Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force and Queensland Police Service have netted 70kgs of cocaine and five men suspected of importing the drugs on a yacht

    Briton arrested in connection with $17.5million cocaine seizure from yacht

    • August 25, 2015

    A Briton is among five people arrested following the seizure of approximately 70 kilograms of cocaine from a yacht in Queensland, Australia.

    Brighton Marina

    Cocaine seized from a yacht at Brighton Marina

    • July 27, 2015

    Cocaine with an estimated value of around £480,000 has been seized from a yacht moored at Brighton Marina.

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    West Yorkshire man charged over yacht cocaine seizure

    • July 2, 2015

    The 30-year-old is the fifth person to be charged in the UK in connection with the Makayabella seizure.

    Around 300 kilos of cocaine was discovered at Portsmouth, concealed within a shipment of bananas which had originated in Colombia

    300 kilos of cocaine seized from banana boat in Portsmouth

    • December 3, 2014

    Around 300 kilos of cocaine was discovered concealed within a shipment of bananas

    Cocaine seized from yacht

    Bound for the UK: 250 kilos of cocaine seized from yacht in the Caribbean

    • November 7, 2014

    Two Jersey men arrested after cocaine seized from yacht, estimated street value of £30-40million

    Channel cannabis yacht crew jailed

    • October 6, 2014

    The haul, intercepted off the East Sussex coast, has an estimated street value of £4.5million

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