The ring sent teams on two cruise ships traveling from South America to Australia, each carrying large amounts of cocaine.
A member of an international cocaine smuggling ring, whose members used cruise ship passengers as mules to transport millions of dollars worth of drugs from South America to Australia, has been convicted by a New Zealand court.
Frenchman Alexander Steeve Yelengwe Yonkwa-Dingom, 28, was arrested by New Zealand police at a hostel in the town of Paihia, in the north of the country in 2017, according toWhen detained, Yonkwa-Dingom was carrying a backpack containing a large amount of cocaine, worth somewhere between $4.5 and $7.15 million.
In his trial at the High Court in Auckland, the Frenchman pleaded guilty to one charge of possession of cocaine and charges of importing cocaine and failing to carry out obligations in relation to a computer search. At least six others were involved in the smuggling operation, a police summary of the plot explained. It was driven by two unnamed French nationals, who recruited others to carry cocaine on cruise ships from South America to Australia.cruise ship, heading to Sydney and due to dock at the end of November 2017. The two Frenchmen then themselves went aboard the, which was due to travel from the U.S.
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