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### Viewing cable 09REYKJAVIK82, BIGGEST DRUG BUST IN ICELAND'S HISTORY REVEALS

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    PP RUEHAG RUEHAST RUEHDA RUEHDBU RUEHDF RUEHFL RUEHIK RUEHKW RUEHLA
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    DE RUEHRK #0082/01 1171627
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    P 271627Z APR 09
    FM AMEMBASSY REYKJAVIK
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4061
    INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
    RHMFIUU/DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON DC
    RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC
    RUEHNA/DEA WASHDC
    RUEKDIA/DIA WASHDC
    RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 REYKJAVIK 000082

    SIPDIS

    SENSITIVE

    STATE FOR EUR/NB, INL
    COPENHAGEN FOR DEA, LEGATT
    OSD-P FOR FENTON
    DHS FOR USCG INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS LT ERO

    E.O. 12958:  N/A
    TAGS: SNAR PGOV ASEC KCRM IC
    SUBJECT:  BIGGEST DRUG BUST IN ICELAND'S HISTORY REVEALS
    COORDINATION ACROSS AGENCIES

    ¶1.  (U) Summary:  Around midnight on Saturday, April 18, police
    arrested three men near the harbor town of Hofn in southeast Iceland
    on suspicion of smuggling more than 109 kg (240 pounds) of
    amphetamines, MDMA (ecstasy), hashish, and marijuana into Iceland by
    boat.  The men had allegedly picked up the drugs from a sailboat off
    the southeast coast, packed the drugs into vehicles and were driving
    towards Reykjavik when they were arrested.  The heist was remarkable
    for the joint coordination efforts.  Over 100 people participated in
    the police operations including members of the Reykjavik
    Metropolitan Police; police departments in Eastern Iceland; the
    National Police Commissioner; the Icelandic Coast Guard; the Danish
    military; and the Icelandic Defense Agency.   Post is encouraged by
    these efforts and hopes the coordination can continue regardless of
    rumored difficulties with budget cuts.  End Summary.

    ¶2.  (U) On April 18-19, Icelandic police and Coast Guard officers
    coordinated in the largest narcotics seizure in the country's
    history.  The operation resulted from ongoing investigations and
    liaison with other European police units, combined with a tip from a
    vigilant fishing vessel crew.  Stefan Eiriksson, the Commissioner of
    the Metropolitan Police, told a press conference that the
    investigations conducted by the Icelandic Coast Guard and the
    Metropolitan Police had been ongoing for some time.  However, they
    acted quickly when an Icelandic fishing vessel notified the police
    authorities of the movements of a suspicious sailboat heading
    towards the coast of Iceland.  The Icelandic media reported that on
    April 18, three men piloted a rented inflatable boat with an
    outboard motor from Djupivogur, a small town on the east coast of
    Iceland, to pick up 240 pounds of drugs from a rented Belgian
    sailboat south east of the Icelandic coast.  The men returned with
    the drugs to Djupivogur, loaded them into a vehicle and headed to
    Reykjavik.  Later that night police stopped the car near Hofn and
    arrested the three men.

    ¶3. (U) At the same time, the Icelandic Coast Guard (ICG) started
    pursuing the sailboat by sea.  On April 19, the ICG's fixed wing
    aircraft also joined in the search, and the aircraft located the
    sailboat midway between Iceland and the Faroe Islands.  The crew
    established radio contact with the sailboat but the men aboard
    disregarded orders to stop.  While the ICG aircraft returned to
    Iceland to refuel, a Danish military Challenger CL604 airplane
    replaced it, keeping up the pursuit.  Finally, late on the 19th, the
    ICG ship caught up with the sailboat 74 nautical miles (85 miles)
    northwest of the Faroe Islands.  Four members of the Special Unit of
    the National Police Commissioner (the Viking Squad), who had been
    transported aboard the ICG vessel earlier in a helicopter, boarded
    the sailboat and arrested three men, two Icelanders and a Dutchman.
    The ICG vessel and the sailboat returned to Iceland on April 21.

    ¶4.  (U) Over 100 people participated in the operation, including:
    members of the Reykjavik Metropolitan Police; police departments in
    Eastern Iceland;  the National Police Commissioner;  the Icelandic
    Coast Guard;  and the Danish military, which provided a Challenger
    CL604 aircraft to provide air surveillance relieving the ICG's
    aircraft during refueling.  The Danish contribution was coordinated
    through the Iceland Defense Agency after the ICG asked for help in
    finding available NATO assets.  Fridrik Jonsson, of the Defense
    Agency told EmbOff, "From the time the Coast Guard contacted us, the
    process of contacting and coordinating with both NATO's Combined Air
    Operations Center in Finderup, Denmark, and the air forces of
    neighboring allies was relatively straight forward."

    ¶5.   (U) About half of the 240 pounds of drugs confiscated consisted
    of white materials (cocaine, amphetamines etc.) and the other half
    of hashish, marijuana, and a couple of thousand MDMA (ecstasy)
    tablets.  As the proportions of the various drugs have not been
    disclosed exactly, street value cannot be verified but it is clear
    that it amounts to millions of dollars, making this the biggest drug
    bust in Icelandic history.  This case is reminiscent of the 2007
    Pole Star case where the Icelandic police authorities raided the
    sailboat Pole Star where it was stationed at the Faskrudsfjordur (a
    small town on the east coast of Iceland) harbor and confiscated 90
    pounds of drugs.  In that case, one defendant was sentenced to 7.5
    years in prison, two others received a seven-year sentence, and a
    fourth defendant was sentenced to five years.  Other defendants
    received lighter sentences.  Also of note is the inclusion of
    marijuana in the seized shipment.  In the last few years, smuggling
    of marijuana to Iceland has been declining as it has increasingly
    been grown domestically.  Recently the Icelandic police authorities

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    have been very active in infiltrating and stopping these domestic
    operations and Commissioner Eiriksson noted that the presence of
    marijuana in the confiscated drugs highlighted the police's success;
    i.e., dealers are resorting to smuggling marijuana into the country
    rather than relying on domestic production.

    ¶6.  (SBU) Comment: Beyond the successful work by a variety of law
    enforcement agencies, the cooperation between the Iceland Defense
    Agency and the Coast Guard is remarkable as they have been fighting
    a bitter duel in the press over budget and areas of responsibility.
    Post is encouraged by these efforts and hopes the coordination can
    continue regardless of the outcome over budget issues.  We also
    anticipate a rise in seizures as the summer travel season gets
    underway, particularly with the resumption of ferry service between
    eastern Iceland, Norway, Denmark, and the Faroes.

    van Voorst

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