MV Raider Cocaine Smuggling Scandal
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The MV Raider, a 1991-built US merchant ship, resurfaced in Panama in 2021 after disappearing from tracking. Flying Togos flag, it was bound for Sydney with a fake buyer in Brisbane and allegedly concealed secret smuggling hides for cocaine. The Australian feds claim it started with nearly 6 tonnes of the drug hidden inside. The French navy intercepted it near French Polynesia, dumped 4.8 tonnes overboard, but missed about 1 tonne in the hull. It then reached the Cook Islands on a fake distress call for engine repairs, but customs found nothing and let it go. The crew continued towards Australia, allegedly dropping coke to local boats near Wollongong via sat phone chats with bosses. It was later escorted into Sydney Harbour on March 12th. Six crew members now face drug trafficking charges, and investigations are ongoing to find the missing tonne and the syndicates involved. The Pacific chase underscores the lengths traffickers go to supply Australias lucrative drug market.
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