The Canadians are said to still be in a precarious situation, forced to stay in the Dominican Republic while the investigation unfolds, but facing serious…
Meanwhile, Canadian officials are “monitoring the situation closely” and engaging with local authorities, said Sabrina Williams, a spokeswoman for Global Affairs Canada.
The Dominican National Directorate for Drug Control says it responded to “intelligence” and found seven other bags in the bay, too, holding a total of 210 kilograms of cocaine. Though street value of illegal drugs is hard to pinpoint, it could be worth as much as $25 million in Canada by some calculations.
The plane where the drugs were found used to be owned by a sub-contractor that carried 1.5 million passengers annually on Air Canada Express flights.But now they’ve been identified as people who helped police intercept a sizeable amount of illicit narcotics, a significant financial blow for the traffickers behind it.Article content
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