I’ve just seen a clip of a Spanish man in a hi-viz jacket smashing open a rock with a sledgehammer to find a sealed packet of cocaine.
The video clips shows him standing in a large barn like structure with other people swinging sledgehammers at a whole floor of rocks.
I can only assume that these guys work for the Spanish customs or a drugs enforcement agency of some kind.
Looking at the floor which is covered in rocks, it would seem that drug smugglers are making moulds to look like rocks and then ‘concreting’ the drugs inside them.
They are then shipping the drugs across borders in trucks carrying tonnes of rocks.
This, despite it being a despicable, is next level genius!
I mean, who would suspect that a truck load of ornamental rocks destined for garden centres or landscaping companies would contain 1,000kg of cocaine?
At first I thought that the police had been ‘tipped off’ as a way to divert attention from the main deliver – a method that has been used many times before – but I am now thinking that had the police been tipped off, this was not done by the smugglers themselves as 1,000 kg is a lot of dugs with a street value worth millions.
In April 2020, UK customs seized two hauls of cocaine totalling 190 kg coming through the port of Dover hidden in consignments of toys and paper.
The drugs had a street value of around £14 million, so I imagine 1,000 kg could be somewhere between £80 and £100 million… possibly more today.
That’s a lot of money to lose as a diversion.
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Either the police had someone working on the ‘inside’ or they had been observing this gang for some time.
Once the police discover a new method used for smuggling drugs, it becomes ‘known’ and so they add it to their list and keep an eye out for it in the future.
Having to search a lorry load of rocks looking for artificial rocks is one hell of a job… as is creating those rocks in the first place just so that you can get drugs across borders.
I can see why they do it… there’s a lot of money in selling drugs.
Putting aside the problems of hiding and smuggling drugs across borders, hiding the money and ‘cleaning’ it so that it is ‘legit’ and useable is another ball-ache of a problem I wouldn’t want to deal with.
Personally I prefer simplicity and ease when it comes to making money.
I get that by selling something that is also as profitable as drugs, if not more so.
That is information.
Selling information is selling knowledge and experience which helps and advises people.
One of the simplest, and often most profitable, ways to sell information is by publishing a newsletter.
Today, newsletters are delivered digitally and can be created online with ease which means that there is very little cost to publishing a newsletter, it can be delivered instantly and you can reach people all over the world.
It is an incredible way of delivering useful content and getting paid for it.
It requires no complicated software or equipment.
You can get started today for free if you use a platform like Substack.
Previously, I have talked about people who are making stacks of money publishing newsletters on Substack including Noah Smith who earns a staggering $1 million (£780,600 ATOW) a year from his newsletter.
I asked our techy guy, Andi, to record a quick walk-around video of Substack which you can watch here:
Why You Should Consider Publishing A Newsletter With Substack
Kind regards.
John Harrison.
PS… People are flocking to Substack to read newsletters because unlike websites, they are not drenched in advertising. The pages are clean, fast to load and easy to read… now is the time to check it out.
Here’s the link to that video: