Is UK corrupt? £160m cocaine haul busted off Plymouth Coast
The bust comes less than a year from a bust in the VI, where controversial ex-Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert had labeled the territory as corrupt following the discovery of US $250m worth of cocaine on Tortola in early November 2020.
Drugs weighing 2,000kg busted
The BBC reports that six men including a British citizen were arrested after authorities seized more than two tonnes (2,000kg) of cocaine with an estimated street value of about £160m on Friday, September 10, 2021.
The group were sailing in the Jamaican-flagged Kahu when they were intercepted 80 miles off the coast, in international waters north of Guernsey, and boarded by specialist Border Force and NCA officers.
Deputy director of the operations Matt Horne said, "There's no doubt these drugs would have been sold on into communities across the UK in such ways as county lines fuelling more crime and misery.
"Organised crime groups (OCG) are motivated by money. The deprivation of these drugs will smash a hole in the OCG's plans and ability to operate," he said.
History of large drug busts!
The UK, no stranger to massive drug busts, had on Sunday, February 14, 2021, seized cocaine worth up to £184 million after it was imported from Colombia in a consignment of bananas and in late November 2020, UK authorities had busted another £100 million cocaine haul found hidden in a shipment of banana pulp in Essex.
Meanwhile, despite having massive drug busts, the same UK government and VI’s Ex-governor Jaspert had labeled the Virgin Islands as having systematic corruption after the territory's drug bust in November 2020 but has never labeled themselves as corrupt.
Many have now seen it as a scheme to call a UK-sponsored Commission of Inquiry in January 2021, mere days after Governor Jaspert demitted the Governor’s Office in the VI.
VI labeled corrupt
Political pundits had speculated that the coordinated publishing of VI’s drug busts was also part of attempts to tarnish the reputation of the territory on the international scene and to get UK Government and public support to intervene in the governing affairs of the VI.
Social commentators had also suggested that the main reason behind the CoI is because the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government of Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has been pushing a narrative of independence at a time when the territory is due for constitutional review and the CoI is a tool to keep the colonialist status quo.
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48 Responses to “Is UK corrupt? £160m cocaine haul busted off Plymouth Coast”
What do you mean? Took it from us? Is it yours?
Man you in deep sh**.
no one says uk didn’t have corruption, but 6 people have been arrested already in relation to this, here in bvi the runners seem to keep getting away . . .
Please note, I am for prayers. Prayer works, but only faithful prayers do. Pray on.
he tries to make his own look sinister how the uk representatives not being upfront with the people.
where is the dope and the dope money. penn must also question the police commissioner about what steps are being undertaken about the corrupt dope pushing policemen
nothing against the chap but if he looking thing to talk simply talk every question aspect about leadership
I am a native black skin man, but I hate to the core this unjust black rasist, so-called Black livesMatters thing, that doesn't accept that white lives equally matters.
My people, in the name God, the Almighty One, stop fueling hate against your fellow humans that God have Created.
Have you soon forgotten, or do you not know, that in World War 2 approximately 98% of the those that died in defence of freedom were white skin people, including civilians. Their sacrifice benefit us.
The CoI probing intocorruption by our political leaders and others are justified. Stop rocking a sinking ship.
Stop attacking those that you cannot prevailed against. Stop sowing discord among us. If you are not comfortable with the CoI probing of mismanagement, that give you and or any other person the right to spill your venomous have against other people of a different skin colour. Does it? No! It doesn't.
“ Why hate the white skin man that came here to help stop the black skin man from I'll treating us further?”
#1. Hate aside no one & no European power “came here to help stop the black skin man from ill treating us”.
Our current situation is a product of the transatlantic slave trade, its profits, European empires colonizing the new world & decimation of the native Americans.
#2 people of all races have been involved with scholarly, skilled & higher learning from the start of written history. From the Ancient Egyptians to the Greeks, Chinese, Indians, Aztecs and on.
It is very ignorant to hold involvement in higher learning, sports, luxury & the pursuit of knowledge to belong of any one race.
#3. During World War Two persons of color in America were subject to racial segregation, they were mostly not wanted. How do you think that felt?
The self hate is strong in you. As a sensible person will understand that modern Americans saying Black Lives Matter in the face of public execution by police does not equate to white lives being less than other lives.
Moreover, for example, in the Caribbean region, the UK government didn’t take a primary interest in providing at least basic education for locals; it was churches that took the lead in providing basic education—Methodists and Anglicans. However, there was no lack of interest in building jails to lock up the beasts. Every Anglophone country has or has had a Her Majesty’s Prison. There may be a Her Majesty’s Secondary School but I’m still searching for one. Undoubtedly, there is definitely a double standard and much hypocrisy from the UK in regards to its territories. It still, for the most part, seem to have a problem with Britons and territories’ residents being equals.
Further, there seems to be at least, perhaps, a tinge of jealousy in regards to how some residents in the territories live relative to how some Britons live. Perhaps, this may have a racial component to it. Black people must stay in their places, stay in their lanes. They must not have audacity and get so uppity to think that they can live at the same standards as people in the supposed Mother country.
News flash the empire is on its last legs & on its way to self implode. There’s no more foreign wealth to steal as resource rich nations become independent. Afghanistan colonization failed.
Good luck in your narcissistic authoritarian society. The war mongers will begin fighting themselves in times of peace.