Eamon Dillon

You know, and that's, I suppose, the kind of the way they're coming at it.

And that was reflected in as well in the seventh guy.

I can't really pronounce his name properly, Mihan Koprovica, who is a 46-year-old Serbian living in the UK.

He's a married man with two boys, seven and 15, and he also had a clean criminal record as well and a strong work history.

It's all down to the money.

And I mean, like we know, we've heard that, you know, the crew members on board that the MV Royal were getting close to 140,000, that Gary Monks was... Euro.

Yeah, well, the equivalent of 140,000 euros, Philippine pesos, some that they were promised.

I was thinking it was 100...

€138,558 is the exact conversion.

It's a lot of money.

It is, yeah.

One of them had already been paid €80,000 of that and another being paid €7,000 of that.

This is all part of the mitigation that we heard.

And I suppose it kind of speaks to the motivation, but it's also, you know, again, you know, it just shows you as well, like the sheer organizational ability of like this crime group to put together, you know, a plot like this with so many various moving parts across various jurisdictions and to be able to recruit people, you know, to prey on the people with exactly the right weakness, but enough skills to possibly carry it off.

And you did make the point that, you know,

You know, it was a drug plot that was foiled, but I'd suggest it wasn't that just because seven of, we don't know how many people were involved, but I'm sure it was probably plus 30 people were involved.

So the fact that seven out of that amount for 44 million, possibly more cocaine to get that successfully landed into Ireland and spirited away.

And to the drug gang, totally dispensable workers.

it's a complete success.

You know, it's a total success.