Smugglers who hid £11m of cocaine in bananas shipment jailed
Investigators resealed a shipping container after finding drugs and waited for the gang to claim it.
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Drug smugglers who hid £11m of cocaine in bananas thwarted by police | News
Drug smugglers attempting to sneak 139kg of cocaine worth £11m into the UK hidden in bananas were caught by National Crime Agency officers. The four were arrested after opening a shipping container at London Gateway port they believed contained the drugs in April 2022. Robert Ball, 59, Mirgent Shahu, 32, Florjan Ibra, 30, and Arman Kaviani, 37, were charged with conspiracy to evade the prohibition on the importation of a controlled drug. Ball and Shahu, of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, were jailed for 18 years. Ibra, of no fixed abode, was jailed for 13-and-a-half years and Kaviani, of Golder...
Source: independent.co.uk
Gang attempted to import cocaine in a container of bananas
Robert Ball was arrested alongside his accomplices after officers from Border Force discovered almost 140kg of cocaine, worth more than £10…
Source: messengernewspapers.co.uk
Drug smugglers jailed for 18 years over cocaine banana plot
Four men have now been sentenced over the scheme to bring 139kg of cocaine into the UK from Ecuador.
Source: leaderlive.co.uk
Criminals go bananas! Drugs gang flee in terror when detectives catch them on top of container removing £11m of cocaine smuggled into UK hidden in fruit shipment
Robert Ball, 59, and Mirgent Shahu, 32, were part of a conspiracy which shipped the Class A drug in to the London Gateway Port from Equador.
Source: dailymail.co.uk