Updated: 6:56am – There has been another major seizure of cocaine in New Caledonia.
The French navy intercepted a yacht in New Caledonia’s exclusive economic zone last week and found 578 kilogrammes of the drug onboard.
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According to the public prosecutor, three people have been detained for questioning.
The Nouvelles Caledoniennes reports the drugs have been destroyed.
In July, the French navy intercepted a yacht off Tonga with one-point-four tonnes of cocaine.
The four on the yacht, who were from Latvia and Lithuania, will be tried next month.
-RNZ
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