{"id":80230,"date":"2026-07-18T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/mv-matthew-ship-at-centre-of-record-cocaine-seizure-finally-leaves-cork\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:52:11","slug":"mv-matthew-ship-at-centre-of-record-cocaine-seizure-finally-leaves-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/mv-matthew-ship-at-centre-of-record-cocaine-seizure-finally-leaves-cork\/","title":{"rendered":"MV Matthew: Ship at centre of record cocaine seizure finally leaves Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A ship detained at Cork port since 2.2 tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated \u20ac157m (\u00a3133.5m) was seized on it in September 2023 has finally left the harbour.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Managing and maintaining the MV Matthew since then has cost the Irish state around \u20ac17m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28,000-tonne Panama-registered freighter could not be disposed of until December 2024 as it was needed for evidential purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An international shipping company later acquired the vessel for a nominal price of $1 with an agreement to tow the vessel to Varna in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy9w4y7xy4go?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ship detained at Cork port since 2.2 tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated \u20ac157m (\u00a3133.5m) was seized on it in September 2023 has finally left the harbour. Managing and maintaining the MV Matthew since then has cost the Irish state around \u20ac17m. The 28,000-tonne Panama-registered freighter could not be disposed of until December 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[579,6392,10617,374,2801,13572,1009,10396,4444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80232,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80230\/revisions\/80232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}