Ten folks have been arrested after round 2.3 tonnes of cocaine had been imported to the UK hidden in a banana cargo.
The lads, all aged between 21 and 56, had been detained on February 18 at two addresses in North London.
The medicine are estimated to have been price £184 million, arrived on a cargo ship with banana shipments from Colombia on February 13, and had been eliminated by Border Drive officers in Portsmouth on February 14.
It was to be delivered to an industrial property in Tottenham, and a joint power of officers went to the positioning to arrest the 5 recipients.
5 different males had been arrested at a special industrial property in Enfield.
All ten stay in custody and three have since been charged with the importation of sophistication A medicine.
Cocaine from one pallet (Photograph: NCA)
John Coles, Head of Specialist Operations on the NCA, stated: “The numbers right here converse for themselves; it is a large seizure which has denied organised criminals tons of of thousands and thousands in income, and is the results of a focused investigation carried out collectively by the NCA and Met Police.
“Unlawful medicine are a corrosive menace and those that deal in cocaine are sometimes violent and exploitative. Cocaine provide is straight linked to using firearms, knife crime and the exploitation of younger and weak folks.”
Detective Superintendent Simon Moring from the Metropolitan Police Service known as it the “UK’s greatest ever seizure of cocaine”.
He stated: “We all know there’s an inextricable hyperlink between medicine and violence – that’s the reason tackling the importation and provide of medication is a vital a part of our work to cut back violent crime in London.”
