<p>An international police operation has nabbed cocaine with a street value of around 200 million euros ($232 million) on a yacht in the Atlantic Ocean, authorities said Monday.</p>.<p>Portuguese police said the seizure was the largest in Europe in recent years and the biggest in Portugal for 15 years.</p>.<p>Police localised and intercepted a 79-foot yacht at sea, a statement said. They boarded it and found 183 bales of cocaine on board.</p>.<p>Police suspect the cocaine belonged to an international drug-trafficking gang that was bringing cocaine into Europe through the Iberian peninsula.</p>.<p>Three men were arrested and taken to Portugal.</p>.<p>The operation involved police from Portugal, Spain, the Drug Enforcement Agency in the United States and the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency.</p>.<p>Authorities said they would release further details of the operation later Monday.</p>.<p><strong>Check out latest videos from <i data-stringify-type="italic">DH</i>:</strong></p>
<p>An international police operation has nabbed cocaine with a street value of around 200 million euros ($232 million) on a yacht in the Atlantic Ocean, authorities said Monday.</p>.<p>Portuguese police said the seizure was the largest in Europe in recent years and the biggest in Portugal for 15 years.</p>.<p>Police localised and intercepted a 79-foot yacht at sea, a statement said. They boarded it and found 183 bales of cocaine on board.</p>.<p>Police suspect the cocaine belonged to an international drug-trafficking gang that was bringing cocaine into Europe through the Iberian peninsula.</p>.<p>Three men were arrested and taken to Portugal.</p>.<p>The operation involved police from Portugal, Spain, the Drug Enforcement Agency in the United States and the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency.</p>.<p>Authorities said they would release further details of the operation later Monday.</p>.<p><strong>Check out latest videos from <i data-stringify-type="italic">DH</i>:</strong></p>