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Cocaine with a street value of £8.25m has been seized by the UK Border Agency at Tilbury – the biggest single detection of class A drugs at the port in six years.
The smugglers had hidden the drugs inside three pieces of industrial digger machinery shipped by container from Surinam and destined ultimately for Holland.
Sections of the machinery had been hollowed out and then filled with 145 individual packages of the Class A drug, totalling 166kg.
Read the full news story on the Home Office website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/cocaine-in-machinery
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