The Irish Sunday World newspaper is reporting that two Danes and an Irishman were arrested by Portuguese police and military personnel after intercepting off the Azores a yacht with 1.5 tonns of cocaine on board.
This quantity of class A drugs had a potential street value of 119 million euros. The three men have been remanded in custody in Ponta Delgado in the Azores Archapeligo following their first court appearance on Saturday.
A taser gun and 63,000 euros in cash were seized from the 11-metre yacht
The operation midway across the Atlantic Ocean between the United States and mainland Portugal was codenamed “Operation Vikings.”
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