When the ship "Budva" sailed into Dutch waters, members of the Special Police seized it and then escorted it to Hamburg.
This is written in a text published on the mopo.de portal, after around 500 kilograms of cocaine were seized in Germany on the Barska plovidba ship.
It is stated that the investigators kept the vessel under surveillance for a long time, because there was information that a large amount of cocaine was hidden on the ship, which sails under the Montenegrin flag.
They remind that the ship was sailing from Brazil to Hamburg.
“When he sailed into Dutch waters, he was busy. Special units escorted him to Hamburg. The police officers found 500 kilograms of cocaine on board. One sailor was arrested. Since Dutch waters, several customs boats have been sailing around the ship in order to prevent the drugs from being thrown overboard. On Friday, the ship continued sailing towards Hamburg. During the voyage, additional mobile units on land, on both sides of the Elbe, monitored its path", the text emphasizes.
It is explained that the ship entered the port of Hamburg around midnight, where units of the Central Customs of Hamburg began the search, which was complicated by the obligation to wear masks - due to the corona virus.
They state that divers from the police of the federal city of Hamburg also took part in the search.
"In one manhole, the investigation found several waterproof bags with cocaine, along with all the appropriate equipment such as a GPS device and a buoy: it seems that the drug should have been thrown from the ship, and someone should have located it with the help of GPS and taken it out of Elba" , added in the same article.
The investigation found a sailor (42) from the ship, who was arrested.
"Extraordinary international cooperation and the great engagement of numerous customs units, and the support of the police forces, despite the difficult circumstances of the corona-time, have led to great success in the fight against cocaine smuggling," said the investigative director of the Hamburg customs, Rene Mačke, according to the portal mopo.de.
Due to the international smuggling of drugs worth around 20 million euros, a crew member - Baranin Mladen Radulović (45) was arrested.
The other 22 crew members - all Montenegrin citizens, were interrogated, but were not detained and the ship was allowed to leave Hamburg on Sunday after loading the cargo and continue its journey to Nigeria.
From the top of the Montenegrin Police Administration, "Vijesti" was told that, with the partner services of several countries, they monitored the ship for about two months.
The ship "Budva" was built in 2014 in the Chinese shipyard Jinling for the company Barska plovidba. It sails under the Montenegrin flag and has a complete Montenegrin crew.
It is leased by the company "Sea Pioneer" from London, which is backed by Turkish capital.
That company, whose director is Cemil Tumkaja, has a daughter company "Sea Pioneer Montenegro" in Montenegro.
According to available data, "Budva" set sail from Casablanca, Morocco on April 19, for Hamburg...
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