Bust in Budi Budi: the day a fisherman hauled in $50m worth of cocaine
by Kate Lyons from on (#4HV4J)
How a remote atoll on Papua New Guinea's eastern fringe was menaced by drug traffickers as illicit trade across the Pacific surges
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Last May a fisherman in Papua New Guinea went out hunting for shark. But instead of coming home with fish to feed his family he returned with an unexpected catch: A$50m worth of cocaine.
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