The Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigation team together with Crime Intelligence Covert Office, Customs Dog Unit and Sea Border Port of Entry followed a lead about drug trafficking between Santos, Brazil and China.
A joint team discovered cocaine stored in a container during an intelligence driven operation on Saturday, 6 February 2021. The mentioned container, meant to be used as a storage for frozen deboned beef, was in transit through Port Ngqura being shipped between Brazil and China.
The electronic sections of the container were searched and 30 x bricks of cocaine to the estimated value of R14.1 million were seized for further investigation.
The National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya commended the collaborative effort and said “the drug seizure is a serious blow to the multinational drug trade.
