Third major drug bust at Durban Harbour

THE South African Police Service has yet again succeeded at a major drug bust at Durban Harbour. The men and women in blue have made it a mission to disrupt and dislodge the work of international organised crime syndicates involved in the drug trade.

On Monday (December 4), members were following up on intelligence and monitoring a container that was on a vessel from Brazil. Upon the vessel’s arrival, the members discovered cocaine worth R151 million inside.

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A multidisciplinary team inspected the container at a cold storage facility and found 433 blocks of cocaine disguised inside meat boxes.

No arrests have been made yet, and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) has taken over the investigation.

This is the third major drug bust in two months at Durban harbour. In October, the same team seized cocaine worth R150 million.

Meanwhile, the National Commissioner of the SAPS, General Fannie Masemola, met with the police chief of the Brazilian Federal Police, Andrei Passos Rodrigues, on the sidelines of the Interpol Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Vienna this past week.

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General Masemola discussed the influx of drugs into SA from their ports. A decision was made to enhance the level of cooperation between the two countries, which has already seen great success in the sharing of information on drugs and other criminal activities, as well as in countering international crime syndicates.

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