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Cape Town - Three men from Bulgaria were sentenced to a collective 60 yearsâ imprisonment in the Vredenburg Magistrateâs Court and their assets worth R46.5 million were forfeited to the state.
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila said in a statement that this was one of the biggest drug busts in South Africa after 973 bricks of cocaine with an estimated street value of R580 million were found hidden in the hull of a fishing vessel which anchored at the Saldanha Bay Harbour earlier this year.
Mario Radoslavov Vasev, Asen Georgiev and Atanas Mihaylov Bikov were convicted of drug dealing and entering South Africa illegally using fake documents.
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10 suspects arrested for the R583m cocaine haul off the coast of Saldanha have appeared in the Vredenburg Magistrate s Court on a charge of drug dealing.
According to the NPA, more charges are likely to be added.
The case was postponed to 12 March for the State to secure interpreters.
The 10 suspects arrested for the R583 million cocaine haul along the West Coast earlier this week, appeared in the Vredenburg Magistrate s Court on Thursday.
The suspects, four of Bulgarian descent and six from Myanmar, were in the dock on charges of drug dealing with an alternative charge of illegal drug possession after police, in an elaborate operation on Monday, found 973 blocks of compressed cocaine on a shipping vessel off the coast of Saldanha.