The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has now been called in to investigate how five bags of cocaine got in a container of logs on a ship that left Guyana last week but sources say there is little hope of it yielding any results as too much time has already elapsed.
It has been a week since the Jamaican authorities busted the 122.65 kgs of cocaine with a street value of $700 million among timber in a container on the MV Vega Azurit and just the shipping documents were handed over to CANU authorities with nothing else for investigators to lead off with.
One day after the bust, Commissioner of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur said preliminary investigations had revealed that the Customs and Trade Administration (CTA) officers were vigilant