How a Balkan Drug Cartel Infiltrated Global Shipping

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When officials found $1 billion worth of cocaine onboard the container ship Gayane in 2019, it kicked off a fight between the US and the world's largest shipping carrier over drug trafficking.
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@business Год назад

Learn more 👉 How a Cocaine-Smuggling Cartel Infiltrated the World’s Biggest Shipping Company: www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-16/how-world-s-top-shipping-company-became-hub-for-drug-trafficking

@torethyen3893 Год назад

Learn more about how Prohibition is a giant failure that needs to be abolished!

@mackenziedick1903 Год назад

tar rather then tea other molecules not as easily come by

@mackenziedick1903 Год назад

chances are they are looking for the alkaloids

@SolitonHedgeFundcom Год назад

@alanhat5252 Год назад

The instant you make something illegal there's a whole bunch of people looking for ways to bypass the law & if they have customers for their newly-illegalized goods they *_will_* succeed in bypassing the law. Where law-enforcement officers & politicians are customers it becomes pretty difficult to stop. The alternative is to regulate & tax it. This will initially bring the market price down but taxes can be increased & increased till the market looks for alternatives.

@RareTS Год назад

they are opening 1.5% of containers and still finding a decent amount of drugs imagine how much drugs are getting through

@xenuburger7924 Год назад

Simple math says they intercept less than 1% of drug traffic. If we multiply by the amount of drugs they claim to intercept, we have to assume that people are using lots of drugs. Drug enforcement agencies actually work as indirect profit centers meant to keep drug profits high.

@noammichael5592 Год назад

@@xenuburger7924 How does the DEA increase profits? I understand if seizing drugs would lower the supply and increase prices but that is an increase in revenue not profits. Fighting these agencies are the #1 expense for cartels thereby decreasing profits.

@greezythumb Год назад

@@noammichael5592 1 ton of coke can profit 35-40 million. There are multiple tons in a load on multiple ships seven days a week, around the clock. It's not an expense. Money to fight law enforcement is no more than putting a few bucks in a tip jar. They spend far more on security against rival cartels, crooks and bribes.

@simrdownmon6431 Год назад

Both the DEA and the Cartels depend on the drug war to survive. End The Drug War NOW!!!!

@jellyrun1 Год назад

98,5%...?!

@pvdppvdp6638 Год назад

Many forget that MSC originates from Naples where the Camorra rules. MSC has been called Maffia Shipping Company by many people inside ports for probably 40 years.

@ecoideazventures6417 Год назад

Thanks for the full form update! It is really an eye opener for some of us

@davidbrown4540 Год назад

And those dudes dont play. I would not be surprised to learn that "cooperation" was gained by threatening family members.

@flemmingsorensen1603 Год назад

MSC is a family-owned company, which was founded in Belgium in 1970 and has been headquartered in Switzerland since 1978. The company began operating with a single vessel and a single service and progressively grew through buying more vessels and bringing new services to the market.

@simrdownmon6431 Год назад

Both the DEA and the drug Cartels depend on the drug war to survive. End The Drug War NOW!!!!

@jayo552 Год назад

YEAH THIS SHIP WAS TRACED 2 JPMORGAN & CHASE, THE REAL CROOKS

@tkdurrani Год назад

I have been a Chief Engineer in MSC and know exactly what happens. Nothing of such can happen without the involvement of the Master with his substantial cut in the payment.

@rrmackay Год назад

Its just the privelege of the captain to be able to have plausaible deniability and claim ignorance.

@Adam-kz4bn Год назад

self snitching

@FajarSumirat 11 месяцев назад

Did such a thing happened ocassionally (before covered up), or did it happen regularly?

@user-fx5nz7kz6b 11 месяцев назад

Between Mexican border to San Diego underground we have touched and seen more 🤣 like jay z once said.. 🤫

@bernardtheulsterman 9 месяцев назад

and I guess, as well not without the knowledge of the company management...

@karanbhattt Год назад

This was known to seafarers since a very long time. We used to call MSC the Mafia Shipping Company. Around 2012 there was this guy who alerted the US authorities about the drug that was being trafficked on his ship. The US govt rewarded him and promised him a safe passage to his home country. He went to the airport(U.S) but never reached home.

@WhyDoThat Год назад

If true probably witness protection for him.

@cambuurleeuwarden Год назад

@@WhyDoThat That's very naive thing to say. Hunderd percent got taken out.

@n0m1c Год назад

"There was this guy." Cool story bro. Cute how there are zero details.

@camdt456 Год назад

@@n0m1c quit crying

@camdt456 4 месяца назад

@@mathiasvries no i do my own research instead of relying on youtube comments to provide details or evidence lol

@SubServ637 Год назад

BS - I've sailed for 36 plus years, retiring as Chief Engineer and there is NO Way that the Captain did not know; for that matter, everyone on that vessel would have known.

@emillyyelen5169 Год назад

it depends...

@richardt3607 Год назад

You are 100% right… the whole company knows.. why else would they recruit expensive from the Balkans and not from the philippines.. how about the difference in lenght for the contracts betweetster crew and officers.. rotating crew between vessels..

@investia Год назад

Logically, those crews arrested know the least.

@jasoncreamer5747 Год назад

Most smuggling happens with just one crew member.

@FFM0594 Год назад

Maybe they drugged his cocoa.

@SiggiTh Год назад

"The MSC Gayane is one of the biggest ships sailing the ocean today." - *WRONG* It's not even in the top 1000. "MSC are today the world's largest shipping company." - MSC might be the world's largest *container* shipping company, Maersk is however the worlds biggest shipping company. Skyler White there has all her facts straight.

@HE-162 Год назад

Relax. No one cares that much about ships.

@marko6128 Год назад

Yeah, I was surprised to hear that assertion, as well. I checked it to be sure and the MSC Gayene turns out to have less than half of the carrying capacity of the largest container ships out there. Hopefully the journalist will see this and be more careful with the facts in the future.

@jorgenfrohlich6954 Год назад

And MSC is not the biggest MAERSK is by far the biggest shipping Company

@the_area_enduro Год назад

@@HE-162 fact are important especially if your a 'journalist' Skyler would hate to be labelled fake news

@marcoaponte5888 Год назад

@@jorgenfrohlich6954 by what metrics? it was a close race for a long time, but last year MSC surpassed MAERSK in terms of TEU transported

@pvdppvdp6638 6 месяцев назад

It would be nice if you make a video about the way MSC grew so quickly in the eighties and nineties. Never saw a shipping company expand and grow so quickly in such a little time.

@JOHNTITOR-kg9zj 4 месяца назад

i give u a hint. its white and its a powder and it rhymes with rogaine

@DasMaddie 2 месяца назад

probably took care of their employees

@paranoidhumanoid Год назад

Every interviewee has said in this video that law enforcement barely makes a dent in their operations on this protracted and futile "war on drugs", so that demonstrates it clearly is a complete waste of time and resources, not to mention the safety of those involved. 🤷‍♀

@simrdownmon6431 Год назад

Both the DEA and the drug Cartels depend on the drug war to survive. End The Drug War NOW!!!!

@decwow Год назад

It's not a war on drugs. It never was. It's a war on small time drug dealers that aren't giving the big players the cut they want. Even busts like this are just a hiccup. You let these go from time to time to give the gullible public the impression that something meaningful is being done.

@andyb619 Год назад

Your comment is absolute rubbish. Disrupting the drug trade is essential to slowing it down. You clearly do not see the children going hungry because of drugs, the mental health impacts of drugs. It ruins families, lives, and society. We need a World War on drugs. This doesn't mean filling prisons with little guys. It means disrupting, and destroying organisational heirachy, globally.

@AnhNguyen-hn9vj Год назад

It is a drug war. It is just not the way you think. Many countries with government sponsor drug dealing on other unfriendly countries. These other countries sponsor drug dealing back on other countries. They are selling drugs back and forth to each other unfriendly countries. lol It is just drug everywhere.

@leivinpavon9648 Год назад

@@decwow The U.S spends 150 billion on illegal drugs annually this really was just a small dent ..

@gregbuser4690 Год назад

I have a hard time believing that it would be possible to pull off a loading at sea operation like that without the knowledge of the captain.

@alexandrebastarache4395 Год назад

anyone can ship anything in any shipping container on any of these ships

@jjr1728 Год назад

You need to mind your own business, Greg. Regards, from Canada.

@yeetyeet7070 Год назад

@@alexandrebastarache4395 lol

@yeetyeet7070 Год назад

@@purchiks1 lol

@yeetyeet7070 Год назад

@@jjr1728 are you all paid by the balkan gang? xD

@northerncaptain855 Год назад

Amazing story. I’ve sailed as Captain on merchant vessels for decades, I can’t imagine any operation where the ships cranes were repeatedly used at sea that would not have come to my attention. Incidentally the eight crew arrested would be about one third of the total crew.

@edhardy7210 Год назад

There is no doubt that the Captain was not also aware.

@e-curb Год назад

You have to sleep sometime.

@154g Год назад

There is the small crane by the gangway on some vessels. Used maybe for liferafts

@gasboydiffa2300 Год назад

Typical captain thing to say, trust me they dont know everything thats going about on 'their' vessels

@154g Год назад

Stern crane capt, can easily be used while the capt sleeps.

@Emerson-gr8uc 3 месяца назад

I recently worked with MSC who owns MS Security on these vessels. The Security on these vessels isn't what you think it is. It's more a front to let the U.S. know that MSC vessels have security guards on these ships. We don't do anything special but just sit there and be seen, no training, no certificates, security guards are mainly Greek and South Africans.

@McShag420 Год назад

"We can only scan 1.5% of containers. We find tons, but it amounts to 0." Exactly. The drug war is pointless and costs taxpayer money. Legalize, regulate, tax and stop all this violence associated with illegal trade.

@Greenfield-yf1wh Год назад

Legalization means that drug dealers would have to pay taxes. Why pay taxes when they could just continue to smuggle drugs until the gov't gvies up on chasing after durg dealers.

@dre2407 Год назад

@@Greenfield-yf1wh People would prefer to buy it legally rather than risking a huge fine or not having the quality guarantied.

@Greenfield-yf1wh Год назад

@@dre2407 No people prefer to buy drugs cheaper. There will always be a market for that.

@juliuswolf288 Год назад

@@Greenfield-yf1wh why would u buy drugs off a drug dealer instead of buying a cleaner product for the same price off a govermantely regulated or owned business?

@Greenfield-yf1wh Год назад

@@juliuswolf288 You are missing the point. It won't be the same prices since drug dealers will continue to smuggle drugs that won't be regulated and taxed. They will undercut the stores that would sell regulated & taxed narcoticss. There always be a market for cheaper drugs.

@BrianMartensOfficial Год назад

All of this effort and they admit "the effect is 0".

@alexnewbold8823 Год назад

i would like to be the first to congratulate drugs on winnning the war on drugs.

@vincentanguoni8938 Год назад

@@alexnewbold8823 ouch!

@Gamer-nc8qp Месяц назад

they should just leagalise and tax it imho

@vitkomusic6624 Год назад

In 1980 cartels declared they do this. Woman in 2022: we discovered......

@augustasmateliunas9333 Год назад

😂😂

@augustasmateliunas9333 Год назад

😂😂

@augustasmateliunas9333 Год назад

😂😂

@boobasile5935 Год назад

Right.. video games in the 80s were all about this stuff. 🤣 🤣

@AwokenEntertainment Год назад

this is probably only a small percentage that's known about..

@markozdravkovic8382 8 месяцев назад

0:50 Little Back Story to this Video. 01.01.2018, Belgrade, Serbia. On the video, a man belonging to an enemy clan is executed. He was driving the car. It is interesting to know that there was a policewoman in the passenger seat and she was not injured. More than a dozen bullets hit the man. He died on the spot.

@anonimushbosh Год назад

All the money it costs to police drug trafficking, plus the related crime costs, and health costs, and welfare costs... It'd be cheaper for govts to buy all the drugs straight from the traffickers.

@4Everlast Год назад

😂👏 Well CIA was selling it in the 70-80's, you think other governments aren't doing that? We're being F in every way.

@usmans9274 Год назад

so whats your solution for drugs?

@alethiosoratos5455 Год назад

You are missing the real benefits to the elites. The additional crime justifies having a large militarized police force and it justifies unconstitutional laws like RICO, search, and seizure laws. This creates a standing army that can be turned on the people on a moments notice. IT IS ABOUT CONTROL.

@MrOlgrumpy Год назад

@@usmans9274 Like some sensible countries,maximum penalty,capital punishment !! no repeat offenders.

@mustangracer5124 Год назад

I'm sure most get a big cut of the action

@KrisRoberts114 Год назад

The vast cost of the "war on drugs" simply isnt worth it

@BuckingHorse-Bull Год назад

there is no war on drugs. Its just an excuse to militarize local police

@michaelcre8 Год назад

Nixon was a Crook. The drug war was designed to be evil. Addiction is a psychological problem similar to depression. It would be cheaper to treat it like that again. The drug war was designed to funnel immense cash flows to smugglers especially the intelligence community. That obviously sounds like a baseless conspiracy theory to most people, but anyone who knows even a little history knows that's exactly what the Iran Contra Affair was. Why would they ever stop doing that when it gives them unlimited funding for whatever they want?

@bebobism Год назад

But what happens if you leave them alone ? . . . The drug cartels grow out of control and then what ?!

@KrisRoberts114 Год назад

@@bebobism Portugal is a fair example of what happens when you legalise drugs🤷‍♂️

@dfsilversurfer Год назад

How much money they must spend and wasting on their war on drugs . What if they put that money into health, jobs and education..there would be less incarcerated and better off.

@karenfay4545 Год назад

I have US MMC for Jr. Engineer QMED AS-E. I can say integrity of a ship begins with the integrity of the crew and paying them a fair wage. Hiring crew from a region in economic collapse, rife with criminal activity and corruption all the way to the top because you can pay them ¢ on the $ is a recipe for trouble. Hire crew to have a career that give them incentive NOT to risk loosing it all over engaging in these activities even if they are not caught doing it by law enforcement ie intergrity. That would be cheaper than throwing money at Gestapo security. Mark Fay MMC Jr. Engineer QMED AS-E

@filipvlahek3515 Год назад

Tru dat

@srambrero Год назад

thinking that organized crime and corruption is somehow linked just to countries and sailors on boats from economically weaker regions is naive....there is no money ship crew can get paid that aint gonna seem like peanuts compared to drug money, plus these sailors get forced and blackmailed into doing this, its not like the mafia just asks them nicely and stops their operations and leaves if they say no...dont be naive

@karenfay4545 Год назад

@@srambrero having been a professional Merchant Marine mariner far and away this happened where the crew permitted this to go on aboard. I even had it happen on a US Navy Frigate I was on in the 70s until an honest E3 sailor became aware of a peer’s Tai Stick smuggling scheme with the Collusion of the E6 Master at Arms and told the Captain. If I had become aware of it I would have done the same thing. I have seen merchant crews from mostly smaller lines with crews using MSC crewing policies and foreign jails are full of them. BTW MSC also stands for the US Navy Military Sealift Command, the 2 should not be confused.

@AdamFreeman-ix6ez Год назад

Can you answer in more detail?

@karenfay4545 Год назад

@@AdamFreeman-ix6ez what details are you looking for? Mark Fay MMC Jr. Engineer QMED AS-E

@liamdunn7278 Год назад

“Of course, I’m not even Greek”

@dinow1990 Год назад

Years after the wire taps the Greek is still in business

@philippetrounev611 Год назад

Nothing changed 😂

@gramozgashi Год назад

Albanian

@BatkoNashBandera774 3 месяца назад

Slovene@@gramozgashi

@funksioni1689 3 месяца назад

They were albanians oo amigo

@HE-162 Год назад

It’s almost as if a legalized, regulated drug market would be the only safe way to successfully fight this problem.

@richardponsford5147 Год назад

If only.

@russell6075 Год назад

That would make to much sense

@Turdfergusen382 Год назад

Then how will we fund our wars. Not like to public gonna support them

@chrisr4220 Год назад

The argument against this says if these players are already acting illegally now, they won’t act legally if made legal. I’m sure they said the same thing about the legalization of alcohol - try telling that to the $1.5 trillion dollar industry now.

@RyTrapp0 Год назад

@@chrisr4220 re: alcohol prohibition - we've already been there, done that, we know how it goes

@dimitargerov3139 Год назад

Only the little guys get sent to jail. Brendo (one of the biggest) got sentenced to a lifetime in Italy, then extradited to Bulgaria and went missing .. having enough money can pay off. Those salary based people can always be bought .

@vitovitovito 2 месяца назад

Don't forget that Credit Suisse frontman got arrested for laundrying Evelin's money haha pozdravi

@klubstompers Год назад

"We take narco trafficking seriously" "We seriously make millions from it each year" MSC

@Ozmourne Год назад

No one talks about how much of the confiscated drugs go back into the market via the anti-narcotics authority themselves

@birarakisarap Год назад

Plot twist: Biggest shareholder of MSC is JP Morgan and probably world of finance is financed by drug money.

@BuckingHorse-Bull Год назад

the 2008 market crash. The only way we survived it was because of drug money

@scottheaton8469 Год назад

Further plot twist: shipping is very vulnerable to bureaucracy, as the lockdowns taught us. Someone can profit from slowing it down. This is likely being played both ways.

@vanpallandt5799 Год назад

Finance involves trillions daily moving..drugs trafficking is big but not bigger than the global licit economy

@birarakisarap Год назад

@@vanpallandt5799 yet it can provide you a lot of money if you are in margin call.

@vanpallandt5799 Год назад

@@birarakisarap there was a world of finance before drugs came along for most of globe in 70s. The problem for a lot of LE ppl is they have no idea of the size of the ocean that financial movements take place in..hence anyone with a big house or a sports car must be involved in crime etc *btw i have neither

@anantpanicker Год назад

In the shipping community MSC has always been known as the Mafia Shipping company

@randyhome1544 Год назад

Just look at it as natural selection. Not everyone uses drugs.

@jewslikefunk Год назад

Really? And why hasn’t there been unanimous consent among nations / regulators to take action on them?

@julaingallimore7152 Год назад

. KC Lawyer Roberson has Written a Book about the Vatican Banking industry ,, The Vatican Bank has a history of Corouption and it's male staff are protected by Diplomatic immunity ,, has seen on TV . Don't ask me Google the TRUE FACT Yousef ,, in my opinion and belief.

@bootcizme1124 Год назад

You beat me to it 🤣

@raimondsstokmanis1892 Год назад

@@jewslikefunk Because they are in on it.

@BIBIWCICC 11 месяцев назад

The most common drug smuggling is done on super yachts. Customs officials rarely check them due to worries of being sued by rich owners. The majority of these arrive in Gibraltar to fuel/unload and money is exchanged and laundered there.

@mujtabaalam5907 2 месяца назад

How is money laundered there? What's the claimed legitimate source?

@JWCYOUTUBE Месяц назад

Best video I’ve watched on YT for a looooong time! This was so interesting.

@jeremiasrobinson Год назад

First she said the fine was $1000 per once and then she said the fine is $1000 per kilo. Get your story straight!

@somethingsomething404 Год назад

Right is it 18M or 600 million lol

@sondrejohansen48 Год назад

@@somethingsomething404 20 tonne is not 20 kilo…

@somethingsomething404 Год назад

@@sondrejohansen48 true, I realized that shortly after then couldn’t find the comment to fix it. 18M roughly then

@jeremiasrobinson Год назад

@@somethingsomething404 The excessive exaggeration goes well with the theme of this thread though, so, 600 million is perfect!

@JJRossi Год назад

I came on to make the same comment about the ounce-kilo lol. Kinda a big difference :p

@jeanlefranc3817 Год назад

What is quite telling about today’s drug issue is that, while the US Government is going the quick and easy way of seizing a large asset from a company, nobody is tackling the real problem of drug producing and usage. Which means nothing will change. MSC will book a $100 M loss, and smugglers will carry on with their business.

@SPACECOWBOY_Hej Год назад

Its a geopolitical question, the US government doesn't have jurisdiction in other countries, and if other countries have weak, incompetent or corrupt cops then what are they gonna do? Invade? pay another country for their policing? like come on

@jeanlefranc3817 Год назад

@@SPACECOWBOY_Hej send the CIA and get the job done.

@ryurazu Год назад

700 million fine as well

@ivanhere6292 Год назад

war on drug is a lucative business for the US they are not in thier best interests too solve the root of the evil ..really when there is no demand there is no supply ..

@Thegerceklershow Год назад

How do you think your government officials with a salary of 1 milion a year, go to having 400 milion a year wealth while in office. Organised crime just does the dirty work of your government my friend. Where your government cant be seeing doing things.

@the_officials38 3 месяца назад

4:35 He's saying it no filter nor mince words, respect to the honesty

@chrissknutson 7 месяцев назад

Great job reporting this story.

@The_HouStoner Год назад

I used to work at the Port of Houston as a cargo puller/checker, primarily loading cargo vessels. It wasn't too uncommon to have a vessel's loading process "frozen" until the DEA or Port Authority performed a random search bc of anomalies in an x-ray or a tip from an informant.

@154g Год назад

Does every incomming container get xrayed? If so, why would they try if so?

@samplastik13 Год назад

@@154g as stated in video, most of containers aren't

@dmd2030 Год назад

@@154g 1%

@vanpallandt5799 Год назад

@@154g most ports have one x-ray machine..used for both in and outbound..a singke vessel can be discharging 100s or more containers esp at final port on its voyage

@luismontes4142 Год назад

Gta online sell MC product.

@virgo8606 Год назад

So the captain wasn't involved as he was mostly on his tea breaks while docking the ship in the middle of the sea at night. Hmmm that sounds credible

@rightbehindu571 Год назад

Next time drink black coffee throughout the day instead of a lousy tea and cookie break lol

@greezythumb Год назад

Tea breaks in the middle of the night? I sleep in the middle of the night. I'm willing to say the captain probably does also. Sure he could have been in on it, he may not have been on it. It's not needed for him to be in on it for it to get done.

@AB_Deck Год назад

@@greezythumb he was being facetious duh

@jfbeam Год назад

There was no "docking". A smaller boat came along side and the crew hoisted drugs onboard. The ship did not slow down or change course. Unless you were on the bridge, or near where this was happening, you'd never know about it. (The captain has to sleep, too.)

@itsmewill8725 Год назад

@@jfbeam or have the plausible denied ability to denie you was evolved, I.e. I am the captain I have to sleep some time 😇

@joshuajones634 Год назад

Shocking I would have never thought the shipping industry.

@patrec7638 Год назад

More evidence that this sort of sophistication requires involvement of massive corporations, banks and governments to go unnoticed.

@andrewradford3953 Год назад

This gets hilarious. They were fined less than 10%. Authorities seem to think there were only 8 people directly involved, and the company knew nothing. Gold!

@riskinhos Год назад

they didn't. it's no benefit to them.

@vanpallandt5799 Год назад

Authorities think..more like what they could evidentially seek to prove

@murrayterry834 Год назад

laws do not apply to large central bankers did the product end up on the streets of Philadelphia after the federal marshals turned over custody to offset the financiers losses

@aquelpibe Год назад

It´s not what they think, it´s what they can prove. That´s how it works. And the amount of the fine is determined by law.

@infoloopgraaf7937 Год назад

MSC was probably created for the sole purpose of smuggling.

@bobcrip9816 Год назад

I learned a lot about the shipping industry through The Wire (Best show ever) thank you wre!!!

@kenbrager4475 Год назад

That was a well thought out and presented video. Thanks

@tommytunes303 Год назад

Great piece, happy to see my friends at Bloomberg killin' it! Love the quick aspect. As intrigued as I was, I don't want to hang around for an hour (for anything) 😂

@artimkalash3347 Год назад

Every Balkan person, watching this video to see if their country gets mentioned

@dennynikaj Год назад

Montenegro is doing this, wow.

@naopak6750 Год назад

Actually its Albanians from Albania and Kosovo doing all that. Montenegro just provides some logistics.

@dennynikaj Год назад

@@naopak6750 it is Montenegro, and Montenegrins as the video said, also the Montenegrin boxer, do not make things up!

@artimkalash3347 Год назад

@@naopak6750 it’s Albanian, it’s Serbs, it’s Romanians, they don’t really care about Nationality anyways

@jerrydrake4652 Год назад

strange that only one person is mentioned ... wonder what is the nationality of other 7?? Anyone wanna guess ...

@IbangedYaMama Год назад

So basically shipping companies should do the job of law enforcement agencies and bear all the expenses of it while governments collect money in fines & forfeitures from these companies when they fail to prevent drug smuggling. Yup seems fair.

@josegonzalez6004 Год назад

No but it’s there responsibility to now was getting loaded and unloaded of there ships.

@Alexander-cg1ey Год назад

No it's not, there should be more international cooperation and shared responsibilities at every step of the way.

@tsak912 Год назад

Absolutely fair. Their ship, their containers, their contraband, their responsibility.

@RAT7163 Год назад

Haha you thought you had something there. Yea, companies should be held responsible for allowing their enterprise to be used as drug mules.

@Juggermerk Год назад

Well you missed the part that multiple government agencies enforced the law and arrested charged and successfully locked away the criminals responsible. I don't remember the part where MSc locked anyone up for shipping drugs....must've missed that /s

@mistyaqua 3 месяца назад

MSC is absolutely complicit just by the sheer number of their employees that have knowledge of what is happening and cannot stop it. Any person put into the ethical dilemma of stopping the drugs at this quantity faces a dangerous situation, it is simply not worth risking their life over. Drug regulations need to change.

@tethron. Год назад

This was very interesting, great piece of content here.

@Punishedgentile Год назад

*DON'T THINK FOR A SECOND THE HIGHER UPS IN THE SHIPPING COMPANY WERE UNAWARE... LOOK INTO THEIR BACKGROUNDS AND EARLY LIVES*

@Pizzafan622 Год назад

lol no

@stargazer3364 Год назад

Wayyy higher ups. The little smuglers end up dead or in prison for life for trying to get a piece of the pie. Big brother is in control.

@nategalt5613 Год назад

Early lives? What do their lives as kids have to do with this?

@Punishedgentile Год назад

@@nategalt5613 We're just looking for patterns

@nategalt5613 Год назад

@@Punishedgentile such as? What do their childhoods have anything to do with anything?

@Fenrasulfr 2 месяца назад

The standard should become that the shipping companies become responsible for the illegal goods. They should get crippling fines with every seizure. I am sure these companies will start solving the problems real fast.

@carlislepanting5219 Год назад

Belize central america I'm from and 1 thing i know is that the WAR on DRUGS is a lost battle because too much drug consumers worldwide and too much hard core distributions

@icxcnika555 Год назад

So basically shipping companies are shipping drugs 😂 who would of thought

@yourlifestyleelevated2015 Год назад

Same thing here. If they knew about this one, the bigger ones were NOT caught.

@bryanlr Год назад

@@yourlifestyleelevated2015 facts

@Lucasxd331 Год назад

@@yourlifestyleelevated2015 but they can't risk using this shipping method for a while now, that's how it works. Drugs will find their way through other means for a couple of years until this case cools down enough and they can use MSC's ships again.

@dostijem5118 Год назад

all big companies doing something illegal behind the scenes and the success its always there u can't be successful if u don't cheat to ur best friends or family even if u sell drugs

@BuckingHorse-Bull Год назад

@@Lucasxd331 its the same thing for legit companies after thier suppliers reaise prices.

@1959Berre 9 месяцев назад

Amazing how this Belgian customs officer is the spiting image of the actor Martin Ferrero, who played the role of Izzy Moreno in Miami Vice. Even his voice sounds alike.

@rickadrian2675 Год назад

These massive companies have massive infrastructure and systems in place to manage cargo, staffing and logistics. If they all risked a $600m US fine per ship, the solutions would be found pretty quickly.

@Kenoshino Год назад

MSC forgot to pay the CIA their cut :(

@desmond-hawkins Год назад

16:08 - 20 tons * $1,000/oz (and not "per kilo" as mistakenly said) is $640 million.

@whatta7793 Год назад

Not getting sold by the ounce though. Probably more like $15k per kilo wholesale, then sold down again for $30k per kilo, and then that's when it gets cut, and sold by the ounces to the smaller street dealers. Cartel Distributors Street Dealers Low Level Street Dealers, if you buy from this source, chances are you're getting product around 50% pure if you're lucky, and paying the biggest premium around $100 a gram, and/or around $250 an eight ball, when you can probably get PURE product in the country of origin for $2-10 a gram depending on your connection in the country of origin.

@Chrissmills Год назад

@@whatta7793 in Australia it’s $350/gram and lucky to get it at 40%

@desmond-hawkins Год назад

@@whatta7793 This is about the fine, not the sale of drugs. A kilo where I live goes for $27k-$30k, or so I heard. If you buy a single gram it'll be more like $80.

@EvolveFiRE Год назад

Usually, some journalists May round the number out, to make it easier on the ears and to remember, rounding up or down.

@j4sho748 Год назад

@@Chrissmills holeeeey

@Gatecrasher1 Год назад

Amazing reporting! Absolutely riveting

@simongreenthumb6376 Год назад

What a massive waste of taxpayers money fighting drugs! Tragic

@hafzalak Год назад

I like how he said , it was only 7 out of 4000 containers 😅🤣😂

@okairo Год назад

Apparently he doesn't know just how much those containers can hold, nor to smuggle decently that yes, only a fraction of the containers (7 in this case) is only going to take up a tiny fraction so it passes customs with as little issues.

@skys6655 Год назад

Like in accounting, to beat the irs, you gotta give a lil something

@simrdownmon6431 Год назад

Both the DEA and the Cartels depend on the drug war to survive. End The Drug War NOW!!!!

@BigLO-rn7rj Год назад

@@skys6655you said it best you gotta give them a lil something that way you could do your thing however you want to

@thelmacummings425 Год назад

Sad.

@the_magic_max9491 Год назад

"The definition of insanity is: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~ Albert Einstein The war on drugs has failed! Prohibition doesn't work! Legalize it!

@FlowerPower1000 8 месяцев назад

There is no way on earth MSC was unaware of what was going on on their vessels. These companies have always been the willful enablers for the right amount of money. On the flip side though, I think it is fair to say that to an extend, they are not responsible to confront traffickers. I do understand that once you get involved in this sort of business, they will make an offer you won’t be able to refuse.

@linanicolia1363 Год назад

Some of these smugglers get creative.....unbelievable....It is a game of cat versus mouse. Does not seem to be possible to control it. Just amazing.

@okeefer2000 Год назад

What about the U.S. Postal Service? They are used by criminals to ship drugs all the time. Aren't they culpable like the U.S. government says MSC is, in this case?

@An_Attempt Год назад

The US post is highly protected legally. It has a long history of not opening letters or packages in transit to maintain the trust of the citizenry.

@alcoyne3333333333333 Год назад

Agree I've always said the US mail is shipped drugs daily

@bujfvjg7222 Год назад

@@An_Attempt moot point...

@BuckingHorse-Bull Год назад

drug money is not going anywhere. to much money to be made to dissolve

@Torttelini1 Год назад

This just basically shows that no matter what you do to forbid something, the black market will go to unimaginable lengths to provide it, and that there is nothing that can be done against it, but one thing: Legalizing the forbidden substance. Just like alcohol prohibition... The solution is in plain sight, although the implementation can be quite difficult since its with many substances and the potential dangers for the population by making this decision. But even arguing that, someone that wants to consume, will go lengths to consume.

@biscuitsticks438 10 месяцев назад

Congratulations to drugs, for winning the war on drugs.

@dahasolomon7314 Год назад

This is like charging an airline for having a customer with drugs in his luggage. It doesn't sound fair

@verysmallcats1374 Год назад

Problem is that they've had so much time to fix it and did absolutely nothing about it

@dahasolomon7314 Год назад

@@verysmallcats1374 yeah but 7 containers out 4000. It's not the companies fault that most countries lack the infrastructure to scan all those containers. This fine wouldn't have happened to them of they where an American company.

@kinngrimm Год назад

So next time an US shiping company would be found out to transport tons of cocoain it will be ok for EU law enforcement to fine them with millions. Got it.

@MrSupergibs Год назад

Yeah right... somehow there's only one country whose law has an uneven reach around the world.... yep, you know!

@mig7290 Год назад

Exactly. The world's sheriff. They're even entrapping African and Caribbean officials in far fetched trafficking schemes that would never have happened. Always the same modus operandi. Colombian DEA CIs who can walk the walk who entice them. Like they got Vitkor Bout.

@mikegaskin5542 Год назад

US doesn’t have any shipping companies

@kuebby Год назад

You're posting like European nations are upset about this...

@kinngrimm Год назад

@@kuebby My thought was rather coming from thinking of times when european nations tried to actually go against US companies criminal actions and were shut down. So with this now, should make that more acceptable in the future, right?

@ML-lg4ky Год назад

Excellent reporting!

@Miscelanou Год назад

A simple solution to this one problem is livestream cameras sending live footage (also recorded) to multiple locations to be stored separately Skim footage, if ships come near, see what containers do not belong via footage If the cameras get taken out use prior footage to compare the x Before and after of the containers

@Paul-dv4dr Год назад

When I was in Iquique, Chile, 4 years ago there were groups of guys getting ready round small boats as the sun set to go out and do a "bit of fishing" but they rarely seemed to catch much, though they did have some cash to spend in the bars but they lived in shacks. Pretty sad when that is all life can offer, and dangerous too.

@predragnicic7138 Год назад

Those Montenegro guys provide Cash in 90s smugling cigarets to ltalia. In city of Bar, biggest mn harbor l wach from balcony crazy fast boats coming in and out...

@AB_Deck Год назад

@@predragnicic7138 Bari ?

@predragnicic7138 Год назад

@@AB_Deck Bar-Bari yeah, one mourning august 99 on a way to Coffee we meet group of 150-200 gipsies also from Kosovo. They told us paying to go to ltaly. Next day 75 of them lost life on open sea. Few years ago case closed. Kids, woman... There was all kind of crimes

@valideno9592 Год назад

@@AB_Deck BARI - City in Italy. BAR - City in Crna Gora/Montenegro. Both cities are coastal.

@silverianjannvs5315 Год назад

@@predragnicic7138 do you have this kind of problems before the breakup of the Yugoslavia?

@trevortalbot4325 Год назад

These governments are quick to charge MSC but I doubt they would hold their own port authorities to the same level of accountability.

@adblocker276 Год назад

Lots of collaborators working for the port in Antwerp were arrested in a bust.

@trevortalbot4325 Год назад

@@adblocker276 Yeah for sure, but those are just individual people. I'm talking more about cooperate entities/regulatory bodies. They charge MSC 600 million for being complicit in something they weren't even involved in because they failed to recognize it. But that US port is ultimately the one that sent those thousands of tons of drugs to Antwerp with a big bow and ribbon on it. They were the last green light and like MSC, failed to recognize the hidden cargo; by their own standards they are also complicit by failing to recognize their own American ports just sent drugs to Europe, but I don't think they are going to charge themselves 600 million dollars for their own oversights. (Even though they had many.) I'm just living in a fantasy world :)

@TheLukasDirector Год назад

@@trevortalbot4325 Spot on. That's the US federal government for you.

@BlackHoleOfTime Год назад

Well you see it is so much easier to act like your doing something going after the company, like they have time to go after the cartels.

@Aniket2712 2 месяца назад

18:26 ... pretty fair point

@quazar5017 Год назад

MSC has headquarter in Switzerland So the largest shipping company in the world sits in a country with no coast. Very unsuspicious, lol.

@gnek9494 Год назад

They're based in Geneva. One of the biggest/oldest commodities trading hub in the world.

@tonylyons2414 Год назад

Something like this will never be stopped

@barbarafogle3541 Год назад

If the cops, customs agents, and even the military weren't in on it it wouldn't work. This goes all the way up to the chiefs, CEO, generals and even the president.

@bodybuilderslave7125 Год назад

What's the big guy's cut?

@007kingifrit Год назад

that's not true at all. but conspiracy nuts love to prattle on in the comments. the truth is the government is incompetent. always will be.

@HoustonsPsychicMedium Год назад

Great work!

@michaelotieno6524 Год назад

Maybe it's time to come up with a framework to legalize drugs. Controlling the supply side of drugs isn't working.

@ahmadalzlfawi4026 Год назад

Love the storytelling, production and everything in the documentary, please make more of it

@thrdlanerob Год назад

i work in ports and it’s crazy i work with msc containers / see msc ships on a daily, pretty crazy knowing this shipping company is known as the “ mafia shipping company “ 😂

@jayo552 Год назад

OWNED BY JPMORGAN BUT THEY WONT SAY

@suckmeaballZ 3 месяца назад

You'll never see your job the same again 😂

@madhadder6754 Год назад

I'm sure when they find drugs it's not by the organization that's controlling the drug trade but by anyone else that is trying to get in on the market

@yadisfhaddad722 Год назад

Legalize, regulate, tax, improve working and paying conditions for workers, improve quality for consumers, treat consumption as a public health issue. This will continue to be a futile war otherwise.

@nfsfreak951 Год назад

as long as supply and demand exist, there will always be drug trafficking, this will never stop.

@osbjmg Год назад

We could just end prohibition.

@bc-guy852 Год назад

Brilliant. Fabulous production, coverage and analysis. A riveting story; this is just the preface I think, to perhaps a whole new era in shipping in general and large TEU carriers in particular. Drug lords - versus high tech crime fighters... to be continued.

@raylopez99 Год назад

Check out the book "Dead in the Water" on a true story involving the Greek mob and insurance fraud.

@ElementsMMA Год назад

High quality documentary. Well worth watching.

@AwareWolf97 10 месяцев назад

The biggest problem is that drugs are still illegal. So much money goes into those operations but it will never stop the use of drugs. Drugs are so spread throughout all layers of society. Also it shouldnt be the task of any government to decide what im allowed to put into my body or not.

@evancrosley2857 9 месяцев назад

Couldn't agree more.

@jeremyhill4078 Год назад

Can’t wait for the Mob Reporter to do his version of this case! That fella knows what he is doing!

@xxalmightyxx2304 Год назад

Let me tell you about it. It all started with.....🤣

@nsp477 Год назад

"We do not have the infrastructure to scan all the containers". That sounds like whoever decides which containers get scanned is taking home an extra paycheck.

@clownworld5474 Год назад

You don't say

@charlessmith3940 Год назад

Lol they don’t. No port can scan everything. They don’t have the time, man power, or technology to scan every shipping container. They ended up catching the ship in this story from a tip. Expecting them to scan every container, every time would be like saying a train needs to scan every inch after each stop along it’s route. It’s impossible.

@pvdppvdp6638 Год назад

There is not a single port in the world that has the means to scan EVERY container going through.

@thensaiswatchingtoo2977 10 месяцев назад

Not once did you say the vessel was owned by JP Morgan...

@michaelleonard4826 11 месяцев назад

It shouldn't take a genius to figure out, a company based out of Switzerland, took a short time to get to #1. Can you find the owners, not,!

@idkidk8278 Год назад

17:22 They are not at fault. Is what you're saying is they need to do the police work. That they should spend boat loads of money on keeping drugs out (making all shipping more expensive or get under cut). That they should say no to mafia and risk their families. It's quite interesting that some people think the war on drugs is winnable.

@ReaperKing705 Год назад

yeah, they admitted that the government cant process and check all the loads but somehow MSC must be able to do so? ridiculous...

@small3687 Год назад

@@ReaperKing705 it's a reasonable expectation. They are one shipping company and they need to be responsible for what's on their ships. They are also only responsible for their ships. The government is responsible for spot checking ALL ships. MSC is probably in bed with cartels and making death and destruction possible. I mean how hard is it to lock the crane out from operation at night? You mean to tell me their systems don't log anything like hours of operation? I think a lot of drugs can be decriminalized and regulated and people should be better educated on them. MSC needs to pay for their part in violated the country's laws.

@hmalik5232 Год назад

@@small3687 How are they responsible for ‘death and destruction’? It’s just coke, not nuclear warheads😂.

@ReaperKing705 Год назад

@@small3687 yeah you right, MSC should impose reasonable measures to reduce risk but you cant scan every single container that will restrict supply lines and certain items such as food etc as they cant be stagnant for a long period of time. end of the day for drug smugglers there will always be another way, another ship another port. This is just a symptom of the issue, if USA wanted to resolve this issue they would be taking an approach such as how Portugal has handled its drug problem, That is a construction solution as you mentioned. Seizing ships, no no... soon you going to have shortages because no1 will be willing to import stuff to you in fear of losing ships. That's my prediction.

@RyTrapp0 Год назад

@@small3687 "it's a reasonable expectation" LOL, sure, if you don't know anything about shipping I guess maybe it is...

@petergambier Год назад

Thanks for posting. It certainly makes you think about the sheer quantity of cartel product being shipped around the globe 24/7 and how the authorities cannot possibly check everything because they're simply overwhelmed by containers and without snitches we probably wouldn't know the half of it. Also, under US drug laws they can keep the assets like cars, guns, shipping containers and whole ships if it's part of a drug bust, so MSC will probably lose the vessel.

@modtwentyeight Год назад

Price of doing business - make it up in a month.

@greezythumb Год назад

@@modtwentyeight if not a week

@simrdownmon6431 Год назад

Both the DEA and the drug Cartels depend on the drug war to survive. End The Drug War NOW!!!!

@jayo552 Год назад

ITS OWNED BY JPMORGAN, THEY DOIN A GREAT JOB OF NOT MENTIONING IT

@petergambier Год назад

@@jayo552 it's amazing how much those tossers got away with, especially Mr Richard Fuld, aka, the Gorilla. This former investment bank CEO hated people so much he even had his own lift to take him to his top floor office.

@JohnSmith-fl6qd Год назад

The US and Western countries should focus more on the Chinese shipping industry and Fentanyl

@gorangajo8543 Год назад

Yeah but there is an issue, that is not PC 😄

@Robert-yl8rq Год назад

They will just claim you're racist. We will in a clown world.

@alanfoix9911 Год назад

Joe's crime family is making to much money from China to stop

@cinder7183 Год назад

Don't think for a minute Biden and his crew is leaving the border wide open for just illegal votes. Cartels are rewarding him handsomely for looking the other way. That's how he got so rich.

@georgewilder7423 Год назад

You sound so concerned, your kids must using the stuff!

@Shazzadut1 Год назад

I read about this. MSC said they knew nothing about the drug smuggling. How did MSC suddenly get all the money to expand their fleet so quickly? Thats what I’d be asking. Cartel investment?

@dickiesdocos Год назад

Likewise, If a crew from a commercial airline company was caught importing drugs, would their plane be seized? I don't think there's a carrier who hasn't encountered this problem in the past. Taking an aircraft under forfeiture laws seems pretty extreme to me.

@cyrilio Год назад

It is and should be illegal. Forfeiture laws are inhumane.

@alcoyne3333333333333 Год назад

If that happened half the police cars in the US would be Seized for transportation of drugs 👍

@honkhonk8009 Год назад

@@alcoyne3333333333333 bro confused the US for mexico

@vanpallandt5799 Год назад

@@cyrilio it is legal and should be done more. Companies should be made more responsible. Given the way that drugs groups work, forefeiture etc is often the only effective tool as obtaining direct evidence to have a criminal trial can be nigh on impossible

@vanpallandt5799 Год назад

@@alcoyne3333333333333 thats transportation in course of LE activity..just as a police or customs officer can be in posession of drugs or paedophile material lawfully in the execution of their duties

@joefield Год назад

Fines have no effect as long as container lines can name their price and pass any loss on to the shipper (and thus the consumer). I would argue it actually has the opposite effect because the increased container shipping rate or surcharge will have some element of profit built in.

@Ryans-Relatable-Rants 5 месяцев назад

Could they not mount some form of x ray device that scans the container- to the lift of the cranes when moved from the exiting port to ship, and ship to arrival port? Taking x-rays images to overlay Maybe include some A.I that can detect differences between the images and flag them for human inspection?

@Joker-no1uh 10 месяцев назад

As long as something is ILLEGAL and 20 percent of the population uses them, they will never be able to stop it. There is just too much money involved for an average person to not risk it. People are going to do what they want if it's illegal or not. When has that ever stopped making money?

@hiufgterde Год назад

There are countless ports in Europe where the goods come in. And people in the ports are in on it. What would you do if you get a visit one day and basically have to decide between a bullet or getting rich. So they knwo which containers they have to pass through, completely avoiding any security system. They need to get rid of human intervention in the ports

@rikkertbatzback1816 Год назад

Monenegro? Really? You should actually look into the US colony right next door called Albania.

@lagjescuni5482 Год назад

Rikkert Batzback...yes Monenegro why are you acting like you don't know that Monenegro was a serbian colony up until 2006, instead Serbia is a Russian colony since the 19th century...these Russian colonies have a great mafia tradition which began after the Second World War

@lagjescuni5482 Год назад

Rikkert Batzback...however, Albania has never been anyone's colony lool ..before the 90s, Albania did not even have diplomatic relations with the USA or with the USSR...Albania unlike other Balkan countries even in the Ottoman period has always been governed and inhabited by ethnic Albanians not by turks....

@markissboi3583 2 месяца назад

1 month ago seized coke hidden in wood products & coke made paving tiles about 8,800 kilos

@bowedfloor Год назад

Imagine all the time effort and money that could be saved if the govt legalized drugs.

@mikevarga6742 Год назад

In USA we had legal drugs just a few years ago. Basically anyone could go to a pain clinic and get scripts of opioids. This didn’t end well. Given the choice people will throw their lives away fir a blue pill. And everyone in the society pays the price as well. So I’m not sure if legalization is the answer. I’d say make possession a misdemeanor. It’d help more

@seadkolasinac7220 Год назад

@@mikevarga6742 depends on the drug

@RyTrapp0 Год назад

@@mikevarga6742 lol, no, prescription drugs are not "legal drugs" in this context. Stop it. Christ.

@TomTom-xp2jb Год назад

Exactly!!! We need to copy the Portugal model. Take the profit out of illicit drugs and drug barons will disappear.

@logosfocus Год назад

its decriminalization that we need, it takes away the violence that comes with any illegal trade 🚷

@MagnokTheMighty Год назад

No wonder there was such a massive shipping shortage. Smh.

@sarthurl9001 Год назад

Hmm so you say that global shipping is an infinitely valuable industry, and said industry was dominated by a handful of players for years until MSC comes seemingly out of no where to start dominating. Now all of a sudden the US govt in particular is laser focused on taking down MSC? Sure MSC could be worse than the rest of the industry OR they just don't have the same deep lobbying connections that the other players in the industry have. Now their competitors simply lobby US politicians/enforcement officers to target MSC op's and before you know it MSC is no longer competiton.

@aa-.-477 Год назад

Msc has strong Italian roots and ties. Allegedly to the Vatican amongst others

@m2heavyindustries378 Год назад

Hmmm everything's conspiracy, probably involves UFOs and satan too lol. Go and Hmm your way out of here hmm

@ozymandias7392 Год назад

Curious coincidence isn't it?

@Guy_de_Loimbard Год назад

They are not laser-focused on "taking down" MSC. They're laser-focused on seizing one of its 650 ships. MSC will keep chugging along irrespective of the final outcome of the forfeiture case.