Officers recently confiscated nearly 6.5 tons of cocaine from a semi-submersible vessel, or so-called “narco sub,” intercepted off the Azores while bound for the Iberian peninsula, Portugal’s judicial police said.
The bust, dubbed Operation Nautilus, amounts to nearly a quarter of the record 23 tons seized across the whole of 2024 in Portugal, often considered one of the first points of entry for the drug into Europe. Drug traffickers have been caught using semi-submersible vessels to smuggle cocaine while attempting to evade detection.
The vessel was intercepted “in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, around 500 nautical miles” south of Portugal’s Azores archipelago, the judicial police statement said.
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