Legal noose tightens around MSC Gayane drug gang (with free court docs)

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A third seafarer has pled guilty in the spectacular plot to use a large container ship and many of its crew to transport massive volumes of cocaine from South America to Europe.

Authorities swarmed the vessel, the MSC Gayane, during a June 2019 call in Philadelphia. In one of the largest drug busts in U.S. history, they found almost 20 tons of cocaine worth over $1 billion.

To put that in perspective, the cocaine haul weighed as much as three adult male African elephants.

Aleksandar Kavaja, an...

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