Royal Navy warship HMS Diamond seized a big amount of cannabis value £15m from a service provider ship within the Indian Ocean.
Working underneath searing warmth within the Gulf of Aden, the Portsmouth-based ship pressured the suspect dhow to cease, permitting sailors and Royal Marines to board and search the ship the place they discovered greater than 2,000 kg of narcotics.
After initially ignoring calls from HMS Diamond to cease, the dhow was stopped when the destroyer's Wildcat helicopter appeared overhead with two naval vessels, all with weapons pointed on the suspect vessel.
An intensive search of the dhow uncovered quite a few packages, which subsequent exams aboard the destroyer confirmed contained unlawful narcotics. A complete of two.4 tons of cannabis was destroyed.
HMS Diamond operated underneath the banner of Mixed Job Drive 150, led by Canada, devoted to stopping legal exercise in additional than two million sq. kilometers of ocean within the Center East.
“This interdiction carried out by HMS Diamond is a good instance of the efficient collaboration between the Joint Maritime Forces companions and the mixed Job Drive 150 staff,” stated Captain Colin Matthews, Royal Canadian Navy officer accountable for the worldwide drive.
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