R3.5m worth of heroin seized |03 February 2015

Heroin with a street value of at least R3.5 million has been recovered on board a ship in the port of Victoria.

A communique from the NDEA (National Drugs Enforcement Agency) said that the drugs were discovered on board a commercial cargo vessel that had recently docked in the port.

A number of suspects have been interviewed and an investigation is ongoing.
The boat had arrived in Seychelles en route from the port of Mombasa.   

This discovery is the latest in a series of seizures that have been made of drugs entering the country from abroad. On December 14 last year four and half kilogrammes of drugs were seized from a boat that had entered the country from Madagascar; on January 22 this year a quarter of a kilogramme of drugs were seized from a supply boat.

The latest discovery brings the total amount of drugs that have been prevented from being sold on the street since the beginning of this year to over 60 kilogrammes, the street value of which amounts to R34 million.