The Iceman: the Rise And Fall of a Crime Lord
“Loaded to its limit, with the cargo lashed to the deck, the British-registered trawler was dangerously unstable. Its cargo, transferred ship-to-ship off the coast of Morocco the day before, was not one recorded on any ship’s manifest – a cargo of eight tonnes of cannabis worth £24 million on the streets of Scotland.
Dawn was yet to break on Sunday, 5 June 2005 but, when it did, the police moved in. The four crew on board put up no struggle as the Spanish cutter stopped the Squilla dead in the w...ater. One source said: A decision had been taken that it was too risky to allow the vessel to run with the drugs back to Britain. The trawler was really well down in the water when she was stopped. She was loaded to the absolute limit.
The dramatic raid in international waters, 100 miles west of Lisbon, may have been code-named Operation Bouzas after the Spanish port where the fishing boat had anchored before sailing to its Moroccan rendezvous. It may have involved Spanish police and Customs, the National Crime Squad and Europol.MoreLess
Dawn was yet to break on Sunday, 5 June 2005 but, when it did, the police moved in. The four crew on board put up no struggle as the Spanish cutter stopped the Squilla dead in the w...ater. One source said: A decision had been taken that it was too risky to allow the vessel to run with the drugs back to Britain. The trawler was really well down in the water when she was stopped. She was loaded to the absolute limit.
The dramatic raid in international waters, 100 miles west of Lisbon, may have been code-named Operation Bouzas after the Spanish port where the fishing boat had anchored before sailing to its Moroccan rendezvous. It may have involved Spanish police and Customs, the National Crime Squad and Europol.MoreLess
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