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The former head of the EU Drugs Interception Agency said the lack of personnel to operate naval ships ‘is not lost’ on organised crime groups planning logistics for drug importations.
Officers from the National Crime Agency worked with counterparts in France and Spain to target a crime group suspected of shipping the cocaine.
Three men have been arrested after 40 bales of cocaine weighing around 1.2 tonnes was seized from a yacht in the middle of the Atlantic.
Scottish skipper among those held in international operation targeting alleged trafficking gang, with further arrests in Marbella
The 29-year-old was skippering a Spanish-registered yacht intercepted by a French navy frigate.