200 kilos discovered in yacht that left Ecuador, ran aground in Tonga en route to Australia

Posted on November 17, 2012 • Filed under: Crime, Drug Activity, Ecuador

The drugs, worth about 120 million dollars (94 million euros), was found inside the yacht “JeReVe”, which ran aground near the island Luatafito in Tonga. Australian police said today the discovery of 200 kilograms of cocaine aboard a yacht that ran aground off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific, and was headed to Australia from Ecuador. The boat also found the body “pretty broken” of a man, whose death Tonga forensic investigating, with help from his fellow Australians. In the operation involving drug authorities Tonga, Cook Islands, Australia and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Read Article

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