British forces help make record drug bust at sea
28 Apr 2014 02:47 PM
Over 1,000 kilos of heroin have been seized in a
Royal Navy-led multinational maritime forces and counter-terrorism
operation.
An
Australian warship operating under the command of a Royal Navy commodore and
his British team made the record-breaking 1,032-kilogram haul, with an
estimated UK street value of more than £140 million.
The
heroin was discovered on board a dhow in the Indian Ocean, 30 miles off the
east coast of Africa, near Kenya and Tanzania.
HMAS Darwin’s crew found the dhow during an
operation for the Combined
Maritime Forces (CMF) counter-terrorism Combined Task Force (CTF) 150,
currently commanded by Royal Navy Commodore Jeremy Blunden and manned by his
team of 24 Royal Navy personnel in Bahrain.
The
drugs interception is part of a multinational campaign to stop drug smuggling
in the Indian Ocean, profits from which are known to help fund terrorist
organisations including Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
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