International authorities seized $232 million worth of cocaine from a yacht in the Atlantic Ocean off the European coast, according to reports.
Portuguese police said Monday the drug haul was the largest in Europe in recent years and the biggest in Portugal in 15 years.
Police intercepted the 79-foot yacht and boarded the vessel to find 183 bales of cocaine stowed away.
Police suspect the cocaine belonged to an international drug-trafficking gang that was bringing cocaine into Europe through the Iberian Peninsula.
Three men were arrested and taken to Portugal.
The operation involved police from Portugal, Spain, the Drug Enforcement Agency in the United States and the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency.
Authorities said they would release further details of the operation later Monday.
Edited by ArLuther Lee for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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