Cocaine catamaran trial: Yacht skipper must have known about 'precious cargo': prosecutor

By Mark Russell
Updated October 14 2019 - 7:02pm, first published 6:00pm
SEIZURE: Police raiding the Skarabej at Toronto on November 15, 2017.
SEIZURE: Police raiding the Skarabej at Toronto on November 15, 2017.

A drug syndicate would never let a catamaran packed with more than 500 kilograms of cocaine be sailed from Tahiti to NSW without anyone on board knowing about their "precious cargo", a court has heard.

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