SCOTLAND YARD HERE TO STUDY MARIJUANA-SMUGGLING CASE

(November 9) - Two Scotland Yard investigators have arrived here to examine
a shipping container in the Port of Eilat in which four tons of marijuana
were discovered on Sunday.

Scotland Yard got the information from Interpol and contacted Eilat police,
asking whether they could investigate how the drugs were smuggled.

The drugs were found in a container which otherwise was filled with a cargo
of wood. It came on the Zim line's Mombassa Star, which arrived from
Durban, South Africa. The ship was due to unload the containers and put
them on trucks for Haifa, where they were to be shipped to European
countries. The suspect container was destined for Romania.

Acting on intelligence information passed from Interpol to Eilat police and
customs officials, the ship was put under surveillance. After being
unloaded, the container was taken to a port warehouse and opened. The upper
row of wood was removed to reveal a hiding place containing bags filled
with some four tons of marijuana, worth about NIS 4 million.

Information was passed to Interpol, and now attempts are being made to find
the person in Romania to whom the container was sent. No one has been
arrested yet in the case.