Ground News – Dangerous Business: How Drug Cartels Recruit Seamen and How Much of the ‘Pie’ of Western Stumbling Seamen

Telegraph – Last forts

Dangerous Business: How Drug Cartels Recruit Sailors and How Much of the Western Stumbling Sailors ‘Pie’

An experienced seaman from southern Montenegro was a key link in the loading of drug cartel couriers onto the ships of major overseas companies for more than two decades. In several cases investigated by international investigators, this seaman allegedly did favors for young Montenegrins by loading them onto ships leaving from ports in South America and heading for Europe and, more recently, Africa, but in most cases he relied on…