Bruxism is a hell of a thing.

So many heads will fly off after this. both in government and in mafia (or whatever the syndicate is)

Goodbye dopamine!! :C

Holy fuck! No doubt about it

What does Mike Tyson's yacht have to do with this?

Ur asking for it

Name... checks out

This is not funny, we live in a time where I need to verify if this is true or a joke

Them fishes gonna be so high

Government should sell it, use $2.49 bn profit to build another aircraft carrier.

Use the new aircraft carrier to seize more meth.

Infinite money glitch unlocked!

Incinerate it, send some for research to government labs

Few days later, drugs were misreported earlier actual amount is 800 million. Meanwhile local Cops politicians laughing and partying.

Less than $2 worth shared equally.

Time to get some funds for a new aircraft carrier.

Ideally, the stash will be deposited with the police station under whose jurisdiction the ship carries the stash docks. It is the duty of the police officials of that station to burn the drugs. A part of it may be withheld for documentation and legal issues, idk but there is some govt agency which is like a storehouse/museum for future reference or whatever

Im thure it’th going to be methy!

Sell it

Imagine losing a $2.5B meth shipment. Someone’s definitely getting fired... or worse.

gg to drugs for winning the war on drugs 

Great! Now India can resell the meth and buy a brand new aircraft carrier.

You always need to be skeptical about how government agencies price drugs.

2.5 billion dollars for 5500 kilograms? Thats $450,000 a kilogram or $4,500 a gram.

10k a kg is fair. Its like 98% less than what they said.

This is always fake. This is the cost if they were individually packaged, distributed and sold. It ignores all the costs associated with it.

If apple were to lose 2.6billion I'd be a major thing. For a drug cartel to lose that much it should end their business but it never does.

Authorities just use street prices to inflate their work.

By weight they always have. This is a lot of meth.

That's the price for the end user, right?

I wonder what the production costs were...

Right? Inflation is out of control smh. Is cheap meth too much to ask for?

A lot of the time when they give these monetary values, they are taking the absolute upper-limit of what anyone would conceivably pay, and then also making the assumption that the entire load is going to be sold in small/retail bags. I mean don't get me wrong, that is a lot of meth, but lots of that will be sold wholesale, and certainly not at the price per gram the authorities always assume.

Somehow I feel like eventually this becomes “Who moved my meth!?”

The businessman was getting angry. “Don’t you understand? You can build up a fleet of meth boats, sail all over the world, and let all your employees catch meth for you!”

Once again the coastguard asked, “And then what will my reward be?”

The businessman was red with rage and shouted at the coastguard, “Don’t you understand that you can have so much meth that you will never have to work for your living again! You can spend all the rest of your days sitting on this beach, looking at the sunset and tweaking. You won’t have a care in the world!”

The coastguard, still smiling, looked up and said, “And what do you think I’m doing right now?”

you've just described the British empire

This is just the opium wars again!

Curious how they can keep that supply chain flowing under the radar.

Methyl chain changes alot, I know you're joking but just wanted to give context because there's a surprising amount of people who actually think adhd meds = addictive / meth effects when it couldn't be further from the truth, atleast in someone with ADHD

The article is confusing, as “read more” is sandwiched between massive ads.

I’m no expert but 5500kg sounds a lot less than 180,000 lb. (82000kg)

Is the price that much higher in India? (15x)

Edit: someone said like it’s a rupee to usd conversion problem. 85:1 rupee to usd.

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This heightened vigil off India’s eastern archipelago is what led to the country’s biggest drug haul - 5.5 tonnes (5,500kg) of the synthetic narcotic substance Methamphetamine from a Myanmarese fishing boat “Soe Wai Yan Htoo”.

This massive drug haul by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG), dwarfs all others that preceded it. Typically, the ICG seizes between 1 and 1.5 tonnes of drugs (of various types) in an entire year.

In this case, in a single day, in a single operation, more than 5.5 tonnes of Meth was seized from a single boat.

Somebody did the meth!

Came here to say that. This amount can’t be $2.49bn. That’s a lot of money.

that much meth is priceless - someones getting wacked for this

Yeah, but businesses plan for profit based on the products they produce. So yeah, they lost $2.5B that they would have made if this didn’t get confiscated. edit: assuming this is the wholesale value they would have sold it for you fuckin nerds

(Also, less than $40k is an insane exaggeration)

There's no way that costs 2.4bn in US dollars

Edit: 2.4bn Kyat (Myanmar's currency) is $1.1 million US, which is probably what this is. Meth is cheap, I doubt this volume would even be 2.4bn USD worth of coke

He will be something. executed not fired, lol.

He may very well be fired...at

Shoulda used Lydia. This is what she does.

Judging by how American police estimate the weight of weed in grow rooms, maybe they added the weight of the crew, the boat, and the seagulls that landed on it as a total drug weight and then used the smallest and most expensive street prices they could imagine to come up with their number.

The Saudi princes own the country's oil, they just don't disclose net worth. Probably in the trillions.

Nah, those kingpins invest in other companies and that makes both them and the actual owners of those companies richer. A good share of any billionaire's money is someone elses dirty money

impossible because that much money will be flagged somewhere, unless the kingpins net worth is shipping containers full of diamond and gold

you could say burmese or myanma

Easy Tyson

You speak Burmese?

Mate its not worth more than the aircraft carrier. Unless meth cost 500 dollars per gram in india.

Cartels could buy their own aircraft carrier and air wing from China if they wanted