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Friends on coach trip jolly to Belgium tried to smuggle £19.4m of cocaine into UK
Merseyside man was driving the drug laden coach when it was stopped at Dover Docks
A search by Border Force uncovered the cocaine hidden in a specially constructed wastewater tank on the coach
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Carpio Gonzalez. Image via NCA A man has been sentenced after admitting making hundreds of false documents from an attic in Battersea. Carpio Gonzalez, a 46-year-old Ecuadorian national, was arrested by National Crime Agency officers in Battersea just over two years ago, on April 10, 2019. He d previously been linked with a false passport carried by a man suspected of illegally smuggling migrants into the UK. A search of his Battersea home revealed that he’d set up his attic as a dedicated workspace for the production of counterfeit passports of various European nationalities, including French, Belgian and Portuguese. Gonzalez used the space to produce hundreds of false documents, with investigators believing his activity dated back to at least 2011 , the NCA said.