Police and Customs seize cocaine worth £2m, no arrests 28th January 2021
Police and Customs officers seized a shipment of cocaine weighing 25 kilos and worth £2m from a Panama-flag bulk carrier on Wednesday afternoon.
The vessel was boarded on Wednesday afternoon at the Western Anchorage and officers from the Royal Gibraltar Police and HM Customs carried out the search, which went on late into the night.
In a video posted on the Royal Gibraltar Police’s social media, footage showed divers removing a “parasite” device that was attached to the hull of the ship with powerful magnets.
Ropes were attached to the device – a metal box - and it was pulled away clean before being raised out of the water.