New Zealand authorities have found a record-breaking amount of cocaine floating in international waters, which they say was bound for Australia and would have been enough to supply the country for a year.
The 3.2-tonne haul was valued at NZ$500m (US$315m, AU$456m). It was the largest seizure of illicit drugs made by New Zealand law enforcement “by quite some margin”, the police commissioner, Andrew Coster, said at a news conference in Wellington on Wednesday.
