UK navy's record cocaine seizure

Published: 29 September 2009 y., Tuesday
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A British Royal Navy says it made its largest ever seizure of cocaine at a boat used to smuggle drugs off the coast of South America -- five and half tons of the drug, with a street value of 379 million dollars (USD).

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