An alleged international cartel boss from Liverpool has been charged after the seizure of drugs worth an estimated €2 million in Ireland including "liquid cocaine".
The Gardaí (Irish Police) arrested seven people following a number of raids across Dublin on Wednesday June 22 and Thursday June 23 based on intelligence on a crime syndicate with links to Colombia. Some of the men tried to escape arrest by swimming across the River Liffey near Palmerstown but were caught.
On June 22, officers attached to the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau, assisted by officers from within the Dublin Region, searched a house in Beaumount, Dublin. A number of bottles of wine and champagne seized and examined, and are believed to contain cocaine in a liquid form.
