{"id":52447,"date":"2023-02-08T11:52:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T02:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/new-zealand-intercepts-cocaine-3-tonne-500m-floating-pacific-ocean"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T02:52:03","slug":"new-zealand-intercepts-3-2-tonnes-of-cocaine-worth-500m-floating-in-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52447","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand intercepts 3.2 tonnes of cocaine worth $500m floating in Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say the haul, which is the largest seizure of illicit drugs made by the country\u2019s law enforcement, was destined for Australia<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand authorities have found a record-breaking amount of cocaine floating in international waters, which they say was bound for Australia and would have been enough to supply the country for a year.<\/p>\n<p>The 3.2-tonne haul was valued at NZ$500m (US$315m, AU$456m). It was the largest seizure of illicit drugs made by New Zealand law enforcement \u201cby quite some margin\u201d, the police commissioner, Andrew Coster, said at a news conference in Wellington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/new-zealand-intercepts-cocaine-3-tonne-500m-floating-pacific-ocean\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say the haul, which is the largest seizure of illicit drugs made by the country\u2019s law enforcement, was destined for AustraliaNew Zealand authorities have found a record-breaking amount of cocaine floating in international waters, which they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,372,1057,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drugs","category-drugs-trade","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52448,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52447\/revisions\/52448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}