Bloomberg is out with a new video today following up on a controversial article published last week on how cocaine-smuggling gangs infiltrated the world’s largest shipping company, MSC Mediterranean Shipping…
https://gcaptain.com/bloomberg-video-how-drug-smugglers-infiltrated-a-global-shipping-giant/
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, the world’s largest container shipping company, has issued a statement in response to a recent Bloomberg article that paints the shipping giant as being complacent to…
https://gcaptain.com/msc-says-bloomberg-article-on-msc-gayane-drug-bust-rehashes-old-news/
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Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC), the world’s largest ocean carrier, is facing ongoing fallout from...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shipping-giant-msc-faces-more-fallout-from-cocaine-cases
U.S. courts were deluged with maritime cases after the financial crisis — there were a lot of debts to collect. A decade later, the docket is far less active, but even so, 2021 had its share of legal confrontations.
Here’s a sample of this year’s court action:
Container line gets phished
Cybercrime is an ongoing threat, as highlighted by a case filed Monday involving an alleged quarter-million-dollar heist.
Admiral Container Lines, which serves the Mediterranean and Black seas, purchased marine...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/container-shipping-heads-to-court-whos-suing-whom
The U.S. prosecution of crewmembers of the container ship MSC Gayane is finally over. More than two years after a record 20 tons of cocaine worth $1 billion was found aboard the ship when it docked in Philadelphia, eight seafarers have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms. The last defendant, Alexsandar Kavaja, was sentenced Tuesday.
Kavaja’s court docket included a particularly valuable filing: an unsealed government investigation report that paints the most detailed picture yet of how the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/case-closed-how-drug-ring-hid-20-tons-of-coke-on-a-single-ship
The US Department of Justice has announced that another duo of MSC Gayane crew members has been sentenced for the 2019 cocaine seizure, worth US$1 million.
The drug bust in Philadelphia was the largest in the history of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The US District Court found two former crew members, Ivan Durasevic, 31 the second officer of the vessel, and Nenad Ilic, 41, an engine cadet, guilty on charges of conspiracy of possessing cocaine onboard vessel, with intent to distribute in...
https://container-news.com/two-more-msc-gayane-crew-members-sentenced-for-massive-2019-cocaine-bust/
Dos ex miembros de la tripulación del MSC Gayane han sido condenados a prisión por su papel en un complot para contrabandear cocaína por un valor estimado de mil millones de dólares a través del puerto de Filadelfia, anunció el Departamento de Justicia esta semana.
Esta entrada Miembros de la...
Two former crew members of the MSC Gayane have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a plot to smuggle an estimated $1 billion worth of cocaine through the…
Bosko Markovic began working for ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC) in 2008. Over the next 11 years, the Montenegrin worked his way up to the position of chief mate, second in command behind the master, with an annual salary of $108,000.
That wasn’t enough money for him, according to prosecutors from the U.S Department of Justice.
“Motivated by profit and greed,” they said, Markovic attempted to use his management role aboard the container ship MSC Gayane to help pull off one of the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/20-tons-of-coke-40-years-in-prison-for-msc-container-ship-crew
A U.S. District Court judge handed down the longest prison sentence related to the 2019 cocaine smuggling incident aboard the MSC Gayane for the boxship’s chief mate, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.
As the senior most member of the ship’s crew arrested by federal agents in what they term one of the largest drug seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors said the chief mate ran the operation and recruited the other participants.
7 years imprisonment!The chief mate, Bosko Markovic, age 39 of...
https://mfame.guru/boxship-chief-mate-gets-longest-jail-time-in-cocaine-smuggling-case/