Drug smuggling

Two men jailed for smuggling £512m of cocaine in tug boat

Two men in charge of a boat carrying cocaine worth more than half a billion pounds have been jailed.

Mumin Sahin, 47, and Emin Ozmen, 51, from Turkey, were caught after the MV Hamal was stopped in the North Sea east of Aberdeen in April last year.

A total of 3.2 tonnes of cocaine was discovered hidden in a ballast tank at the front of the ship.

Sahin was jailed for 22 years and Ozmen for 20 years.

It was the largest-ever seizure in the UK, worth £512m.

The raid happened after the MV Hamal was halted in international waters and brought back to Aberdeen Harbour.

It was intercepted by the Royal Navy warship HMS Somerset and Border Force officials.