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 veggie
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 How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea
#8673220 - 07/23/08 07:00 PM (1 month, 15 days ago) |
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How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea
July 24, 2008 - timesonline.co.uk
The operation to land £1 billion of cocaine was going like clockwork: the catamaran had glided into position in the Irish Sea and the cargo was being ferried ashore to a remote location, ready for distribution across Britain.
Months of planning suddenly went awry, however, because of the simplest of blunders — somebody put diesel in a petrol engine. The mistake caused an inflatable boat to capsize, tipping dozens of bales of cocaine into the choppy waters and casting one of the drug dealers into the sea.
When the emergency services were alerted, police found 61 suspicious packages floating around the upturned boat in Dunlough Bay, west Cork.
Yesterday four men were convicted for attempting to smuggle what became the largest seizure of cocaine in Britain and Ireland, on board the ironically named Lucky Day.
Joe Daly, 41, from southeast London, Martin Wanden, 45, of no fixed address, and Perry Wharrie, 48, from Essex, who were carrying out the orders for a criminal syndicate based in Britain and Spain, were jailed for their role in transporting and storing 1 tonne of high-grade cocaine.
Wanden and Wharrie were each sentenced to 30 years and Daly to 25. A fourth man, Gerard Hagan, 24, from Liverpool, who pleaded guilty, will be sentenced later.
Wharrie was jailed for life in 1989 for the murder of an off-duty police officer and released in 2005 on licence. Wanden was convicted in absentia by a French court in 2003 for drugs smuggling, and Daly also has previous convictions.
None of them, however, has admitted who poured the diesel into two high-powered petrol Yamaha outboard motors last July. Police believe that another six men who were involved in the operation escaped.
The ten-week trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court featured characters with names from the pages of an airport novel, including “Big Al” and “the Gruesome Twosome”, while others had multiple identities supported by false passports.
The bungled operation infuriated a feared Colombian drugs gang who lost millions of pounds. The evidence gathered along the Irish coast led police to reconstruct a trail taking in Britain, Spain, South Africa, the US, Barbados and Colombia.
Officers also recovered equipment including mobile and satellite phones, GPS locators, three high-powered 4x4s, saloon cars, boats and a catamaran, as well as enough cash to fund a large group of people for up to six weeks in Ireland.
The cocaine recovered from the sea was 75 per cent pure. When sold on the street the drug is usually only between 12 and 15 per cent pure. By some estimates the haul could have raised more than £1 billion had it reached the streets.
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Re: How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea [Re: veggie]
#8673280 - 07/23/08 07:14 PM (1 month, 15 days ago) |
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Quote:
somebody put diesel in a petrol engine. The mistake caused an inflatable boat to capsize, tipping dozens of bales of cocaine into the choppy waters and casting one of the drug dealers into the sea.
Check it out, its the three stooges of drug smuggling.
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Re: How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea [Re: lil_demented]
#8674162 - 07/23/08 10:51 PM (1 month, 15 days ago) |
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It's funny when the largest seizure ever is caused by carelessness and not the hundreds of billions they spend hunting us.
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Re: How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea [Re: ExplosiveMango]
#8674445 - 07/23/08 11:52 PM (1 month, 14 days ago) |
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haha all the fishes are going to be all tweaked on coke.
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Re: How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea [Re: Groomies]
#8675080 - 07/24/08 03:39 AM (1 month, 14 days ago) |
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some folks are likely gonna get kicked for that silly blunder
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Re: How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea [Re: veggie]
#8677304 - 07/24/08 05:49 PM (1 month, 14 days ago) |
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At current exchange rates they're claiming that coke was worth $993,000 US a pound. That's $2,184,600 a kilo. $2,185 a gram. Even if it was diluted to 9%, less than they claim is normal street purity, it would be $273 a gram.
These fucks really need to learn some common sense.
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Re: How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea [Re: HagbardCeline]
#8680767 - 07/25/08 03:17 PM (1 month, 13 days ago) |
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its accurate enough,
coke can be up to 100euro a gram and it is only about 10-20% pure,
so 1 g of pure coke = 10 g's of cut coke, that means coke now makes 100 x 10 = 1000euro per gram.
1000 grams per kilo and 1000 kilos per metric tonne is 1000 x 1000 x 1000 = 1,000,000,000
that is assuming that the imported coke was pure, but it probably was, who would bother importing cut coke, you can cut it at any location
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Re: How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea [Re: Spiderbaby]
#8681067 - 07/25/08 04:43 PM (1 month, 13 days ago) |
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The first thing wrong with your analysis is that the article was written using £, not the euro. The second thing is the article clearly states the confiscated coke was 75%.
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Re: How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea [Re: HagbardCeline]
#8681408 - 07/25/08 06:17 PM (1 month, 13 days ago) |
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ah sorry man, i was a bit pissed upon writing the reply but thats no excuse, i was wrong, i should have read the full article but i didnt, iv just been hearing about this case non stop for the last few days through our news so i skimmed right over the text
so adjusted with the 75%, taking one gram of the 75% to equal 7 grams (roughly because coke here is bollocks! most dealers dont even own a scales) of street coke the cost would be about 70 million euro or 55,180,109 pounds, so they really took the piss with the price!
i dont know what english coke prices are like but id say cheaper than here,
sorry hagbardceline im used to seeing threads like this where estimates arent taken seriously due to difference in price between different countries but usually estimates in our news are accurate.
must agree so Quote:
These fucks really need to learn some common sense
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Edited by Spiderbaby (07/25/08 06:35 PM)
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Re: How a £1 billion drug deal sank in Irish Sea [Re: Spiderbaby]
#8681625 - 07/25/08 07:40 PM (1 month, 13 days ago) |
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No need to apologize.
I was certain your prices were higher than ours (especially where I'm at), but there was no way they were that much more. It's interesting that you say estimates in your news are usually accurate though. Ours are usually very inaccurate.
Just FYI. Here in Texas the coke is cheap and typically pretty good - at least the last time I did it several months ago. 7 grams of 50-60% purity will run you $160-175 or 3.5 grams for $100-120. I've been told that kilo's go for $12-16,000 and are typically about 75% pure and from what I've seen published by the DEA I believe that to be accurate.
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