Goran Gogic, a former heavyweight boxer, is charged with trafficking more than $1 billion in cocaine.
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Federal prosecutors have announced accusations totaling more than $1 billion against a former professional boxer.
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Goran Gogic, 43, was arrested at the Miami airport.
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He is accused of supervising the logistics of cocaine trafficking aboard cargo ships travelling from South America to Europe and transiting through US ports.
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Three of those shipments were intercepted by authorities.
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The intercepted shipment at the Port of Philadelphia, included 17,956 kilogrammes of cocaine and was worth more than $1 billion on its own
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Prosecutors claim Gogic coordinated every aspect of the smuggling enterprise.
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The DOJ stated in a news release that "this intricate operation relied on having access to each ship's crew, route, manifest, real-time positioning and geolocation data, and knowledge of what legitimate goods is carried in each container."
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Cocaine linked to Gogic's scam was also discovered at ports in Peru, Panama, the Netherlands, and other nations, according to authorities.
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Gogic faces a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison after being charged with one count of conspiring to break the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act and three charges of breaking the same law.