It's a long journey from South America to the Cape coast. At least the drug cartels know that once cocaine touches down on our shores, there will no shortage of takers.
On March 1 2021 the Windward, a Bulgarian mafia cocaine ship, was three days behind schedule docking at Saldanha Bay harbour on SA’s west coast.
Bulgarian cocaine fleet manager Asen Ivanov and his Bulgarian associates were waiting, probably worried their Myanmar crew had become lost in thick fog or rough seas. Unbeknown to him, he had much bigger problems because watching the mafia’s every move was Lt-Col Johan Smit and members of the Western Cape police’s narcotics unit.branded with the words ‘King Coca’ which sent reporters down a wormholeEpisode two takes a closer look at a fleet of “ghost ships” that traffic cocaine from South America to destinations around the globe.They are invisible to satellites and tracking systems and make lonely voyages undetected, sometimes across rough seas.
The Atlantic Warrior is one of them. She belongs to the Bulgarian Mafia and trafficked cocaine from Brazil to Saldanha Bay off the South African West Coast.The process is broken down step-by-step below:Following last year’s Saldanha bust, law enforcement has confiscated three ships belonging to the syndicate.
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