How undercover cops posing as lorry drivers pulled off Britain's biggest drugs bust EVER after finding two tonnes of cocaine worth £186m hidden in cargo of bananas from Colombia
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How undercover cops posing as lorry drivers pulled off Britain's biggest drugs bust EVER after finding two tonnes of cocaine worth £186m hidden in cargo of bananas from Colombia

Daily Mail  

Smugglers' record-breaking haul of cocaine valued at £186million and hidden in a banana cargo boat was uncovered in a sting straight out of a Hollywood thriller. Just over 2.3 tonnes of cocaine were secreted in 41 pallets of fruit in Colombia, before being intercepted when arriving at Portsmouth Harbour in February 2021, jurors have been toild Petko Zhutev has been described as the 'face' of the drug smuggling gang The drugs deiivery discovered in Portsmouth in 2021 was valued at at least £186million And yet under the kitchen cabinets police found another 33 kilo blocks of cocaine from a previous shipment worth £1.24million wholesale and with a street value of at least £2million. Police found, under kitchen cabinets, 33 kg blocks of cocaine from a previous shipment worth £1.24million wholesale and with a street value of at least £2million Bruno Kuci, 40, admitted smuggling cocaine, possession of a prohibited firearm and possession of ammunition without a certificate Mr Dent said: 'There had been sophisticated planning for this operation during a period of at least six weeks prior to the delivery on February 18. Mr Dent said: 'On 18 February 2021, two police officers acting covertly as lorry drivers delivered a consignment of bananas to a warehouse and storage unit called Agro Food Unit. Olsi Ebeja, 40, denied fraudulent evasion of prohibited class A drugs but has been convicted by an Old Bailey jury Gjergii Diko was among drug smugglers who posed as wholesale grocers to import one of Britain's biggest seizures of cocaine inside a consignment of Colombian bananas 'The pallets that previously had cocaine packed on them were replaced by more bananas.

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