In the US, a vessel with 16 tons of cocaine was arrested: the assistant captain received for a cargo of $ 50,000 in cryptocurrency

The US authorities confiscated cocaine weighing 16.5 tons from the MSC Gayane vessel. The estimated value of smuggled goods is $ 1 billion.

It was paid for $ 50,000 in the cryptocurrency. https://t.co/6DNE1XpmSR

– Intl. Business Times (@IBTimes) June 19, 2019

The drugstores were located in their own land container after the ship arrived at the Packer terminal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

US Attorney William McCavein called the incident "one of the largest drug seizures in the history of America."

According to the available information, the cargo was delivered to the ship by the second assistant to the captain Ivan Dyurashevich and a member of the crew of Fonovave Tiacag. They were detained and have already given written confessions.

According to them, at night 14 boats with cocaine approached the ship. Using the ship's crane, Dyurashevych and Tiakaga loaded bales onto the ship and hid them in legal cargo. It is also reported that Durashevich was supposed to receive $ 50,000 in cryptocurrency for this.

Currently, the conglomeration is ongoing.

Recall that in March, Ukrainian law enforcers arrested members of an organized criminal group who trafficked drugs for cryptocurrency.

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