200 kilograms of cocaine seized on a ship making a technical stop to refuel
A joint operation by the Tax Agency and the Guardia Civil
- The drug was found attached to the inside of one of the cooling nozzles of the Nord Mamore ship, which was making a technical stop at anchor to refuel on its route from Brazil to the port of Lisbon.
August 11, 2022.- The Customs Surveillance Service of the Tax Agency in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Civil Guard have seized 200 kilograms of cocaine that was attached to the inside of one of the cooling nozzles of the Nord Mamore ship. The operation took place while the ship was making a technical stop to refuel on its route from Brazil to the port of Lisbon.
The intervention was the result of one of the anchoring visits carried out by the Fiscal and Border Protection Section of the Civil Guard of the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife jointly with the Combined Customs Surveillance Unit of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
These types of visits are carried out in order to inspect the loading of ships. In this case, in the early hours of August 5, a visit was made to the cargo ship called Nord Mamore, which was anchored in anchorage area number 2 of the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to refuel. The declared cargo was corn and its destination was the port of Lisbon.
During the course of the inspection of the cargo and other common areas of the vessel, a total of eight bales were detected. The discovery was made during an inspection of a cooling water intake nozzle for the ship's machinery, carried out from outside the hull by personnel from the Civil Guard's underwater activities team (GEAS).
These bundles were found tied together inside the nozzle when they were located by the divers. After analysis, it was found that the presence of narcotic substances, specifically cocaine, was detected inside, weighing 200 kilograms after weighing the contents of the packages containing the bales.
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