ANKARA: A National Crime Agency officer told a jury that the quantity of cocaine found on a tugboat was so large that it took two days to remove it from the ship’s ballast tank.
Alistair Gow was giving evidence at the trial of nine Turkish sailors who deny smuggling the drug in a boat intercepted off the east coast of Scotland.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that the tug, MV Hamal, was boarded in international waters 100 miles out and brought back to Aberdeen Harbour where 129 bales of the drug was found.
