Nicola Tallent
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Yeah, and each one of those cite that they have issues with alcohol and drug dependency are both a tale of two worlds really there, isn't it?
And both talk about having PTSD as well.
I mean, look, obviously this is a major drug cartel behind it.
We're surmising that there is certainly word of a director in Dubai.
There's only a few...
groupings that can ship this kind of amount of cocaine across the sea and who have the sophistication to organize these kind of operations.
Many of them would be either the Kinahans or their sort of partners in that European super cartel.
You were suggesting the Serbian connection might suggest Eden Gassanen.
And didn't he before have involvement in recruiting
crew members for the ship in the MSV Guyane, which was caught in Philadelphia.
Yes.
And I've no doubt, like with everything, it's better to have somebody willing than somebody under threat because, you know, when it comes to these arrests and I mean, these people are expected to stay quiet.
I don't honestly think any of us could expect really any of these people who have families out there to start identifying higher up members of violent cartels who will carry out
you know, threats or retributions to their families.
These people are going to be locked up for a period of time.
We'll talk about that in a moment, what the likelihood of their sentencing is going to be.
But before we do that, this was the third sort of big shipment.
Now, this one got in and we've no idea how many times this same route was practiced before it was blown, essentially.
So these drugs landed somewhere in Ireland, we imagine, and were redistributed.
42 million euro worth of cocaine is probably not just for the Irish market.