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A self-employed businessman has admitted plotting to import $10 million worth of drugs and 200 bullets. Victor Roberts, 47, originally denied the offences. However, he pleaded guilty to an amended indictment yesterday on the morning his trial was due...

Latvian sailor Janis Zegelis has been jailed for 25 years for importing $48 million worth of cocaine, a gun and 192 bullets into Bermuda on his yacht. Meting out the sentence yesterday, Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves said: “This is a case of historica...

Latvian sailor Janis Zegelis has been jailed for 25 years for importing $48 million worth of cocaine, a gun and 192 bullets into Bermuda on his yacht. Meting out the sentence today, Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves said: "This is a case of historical en...

Bermudian construction boss Rudolph Travers Clarke has been jailed for more than seven years in the United States for his part in a $3.9 million heroin importation plot. Prosecutors had suggested he should have been locked up for up to 15 years. They...

A sailor at the centre of a $48 million cocaine importation trial spoke of the “shocking” moment he discovered the drugs on board partway through a voyage across the Atlantic. Janis Zegelis said he was hired by a Russian man to sail the yacht Arturs ...

Alleged gun-and-drug importing sailor Janis Zegelis e-mailed — apparently with his mother — about throwing bags and an “iron toy” overboard before his boat arrived in Bermuda. Supreme Court heard yesterday about messages sent to and from the accused ...

Sailor Janis Zegelis set eyes on his 38-foot yacht Arturs yesterday for the first time since he was arrested ten months ago. Mr Zegelis, who is accused of importing $48 million of cocaine on the boat, went on a site visit with the jury hearing his tr...

A Latvian sailor accused of importing $48 million of cocaine and a gun told police he had to come to Bermuda or face death at sea. In a video-recorded interview after his arrest, Janis Zegelis, 29, said: “I was supposed to go straight from Trinidad a...

A Latvian sailor on trial over a $48 million cocaine haul told police he was to be paid $2 million to deliver it from Trinidad to Europe, a jury heard. Police and customs officers raided Janis Zegelis’s yacht, the Arturs, on August 1 last year when i...