A 52-year-old Vaughan man is among three men charged in what the OPP is calling ”the largest single drug seizure” in the police agency’s history.

The OPP netted 1,062 kilograms of pure cocaine — with an estimated wholesale value of $60 million and a “street value”, once cut, of about $250 million — through an intercontinental investigation

The police probe, dubbed Project HOPE, was conducted by the OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau and Provincial Operations Intelligence Bureau in partnership with Canada Border Services Agency, Peel Regional Police, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.

During the course of the investigation, police say, three men responsible for importing “enormous quantities” of cocaine from Argentina were identified and linked to cocaine transported inside shipping containers on boats bound for the Port of Montreal. The drugs were to be distributed in Ontario.