Tag: international narcotics trafficking

• Monday, September 10th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Cocaine in wool bales exported to Europe, discovered in the port of Montevideo

  

  Uruguayan navy, coast guard and customs have uncovered a major operation to smuggle cocaine “bricks” hidden in wool bales, in a container, from the port of Montevideo to Antwerp, Belgium. The volume discovered according to the Navy report amounts to 417 kilos of high quality cocaine hydrochloride and is considered one of the largest recent successes in the fight against the narcotics gangs.

• Tuesday, March 4th 2014 - 23:44 UTC

  Several Caribbean BOTs listed in the US 2014 narcotics control strategy report

  

  The United States has named several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries as major money laundering states whose financial institutions engage in currency transactions involving significant amounts of proceeds from international narcotics trafficking.