Worth more than $300 Million...
New Zealand authorities have recovered 3.2 tons of cocaine, floating in the Pacific Ocean, worth more than $300 million.
Police said the haul of 81 bales, which was drifting hundreds of kilometers northwest of New Zealand, was recovered in a joint operation with the New Zealand Customs Service and Defense Force acting on intelligence from the Five Eyes alliance, which also includes Australia, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
"By New Zealand's agencies this is the largest found of illicit drugs," Commissioner of New Zealand Police Andrew Coster said.
According to officials the drug were dropped at a "floating transit point" in the Pacific Ocean from where they have been picked up and taken to Australia.
“We believe for Australia it was destined, where to service the market for one year it would have been enough,” Coster said.
It is more than that it will be used in New Zealand for 30 years.
Massive haul was bound by netting and covered in yellow floats showed a police photo. On the bales of cocaine some had a Batman symbol on them.
Costar described the found as a “huge result” for police in both New Zealand and Australia.
"Without any doubt due to this discovery there will be a major financial blow from the South American producers through to the distributors of this product,” he said.
Yet it was not confirmed where the drugs have come from, officials said.
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