A “mothership” suspected of being used to traffic drugs — possibly up to €100m worth of cocaine — off the Kerry coast was being searched by gardaí and customs officers on Thursday.
Five people have been arrested so far in connection with the suspected drug trafficking operation.
No one was charged as of Thursday evening, but gardaí have gathered significant evidence in the case.
Multiple phones seized in the operation include “a highly encrypted device that we see at the highest level of international crime”, Chief Superintendent Séamus Boland of the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) told a Kerry court this week. Phones and CCTV are currently being analysed in the investigation.
The so-called mothership is understood be some 200m in length and to have come from Brazil.
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