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The biggest drugs seizure in Ireland's history has taken a £430 million Cocaine haul off the coast of Cork by Ireland's elite Army Ranger Wing
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September 28, 2023
Authorities have now reported that Cocaine with a street value of up to half a billion euro was confiscated from a Colombian cartel on Irish seas in what is the state's largest-ever drugs seizure. After rappelling down from a helicopter amid tumultuous weather off the coast of Cork, the elite Army Ranger Wing (ARW) sank the MV Matthew shipping container on Tuesday lunchtime. The drugs came from 'a murderous cartel' in Colombia, and they were supplied in smaller vessels that would sail to the container ship, where the drugs would then be removed.
Special forces swoop from helicopter to cartel's mother ship, transporting £136 million of cocaine off the shore of the United Kingdom, after bungling subordinates of opioid kingpins went aground and led to the 'largest Irish drug bust ever.'
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September 27, 2023
The assault-rifle elite troops shot down from a helicopter and stormed the Panamanian-registered MV Matthew cargo ship, which had refused to stop in the Atlantic, firing warning shots as they boarded. The helicopter appears to be hovering over the 630-foot MV Matthew as the vessel makes a sharp turn in the water, with the Irish special forces abseiling over the ship before heading out across the deck. Members of the Irish navy and the Garda National Drugs and Organized Crime Bureau arrived aboard, where they discovered more than 2,250 kilograms (4,960 pounds) of alleged cocaine worth about £136 million. The drugs will have "no doubt be destined for Irish and European markets," Justice Minister Helen McEntee said last night, and that would be a blow to the organised-crime cartels involved in drug delivery globally.'