More than €103 million worth of drugs have been seized up to the end of June, and drugs worth more than €33 million have been seized in the last number of days
Major drugs seizures have shown that Ireland “is standing up” to the challenge of disrupting drugs being smuggled by organised crime gangs.
A detective from the Garda National Drug and Organised Crime Bureau said that the amount of cocaine being imported into Ireland has been “significantly increasing” in the past five or six years. He said that kilos of cocaine which had been worth more than €25,000 are now in the region of €40,000 and he said actions that force the increase in price was something they were “hoping we can maintain”. Mr Boland said Ireland had learned “the hard way” a number of years ago that Irish drug gangs are international and they need to work with other countries’ authorities to tackle them.
“The problem is all groups in society are using cocaine – the willingness to use it, the acceptance to use it in people’s comfortable lives, taking absolutely no responsibility for where that money goes, what the outcome is. Every penny being paid over for using cocaine, irrespective of how comfortable that environment a person is using it , feeds back into the most violent organised crime groups in this jurisdiction and across Europe.
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