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Drug smugglers hide $1.3 million worth of cocaine in UK face mask consignment

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16 April, 2020, 06:45 pm
Last modified: 16 April, 2020, 06:51 pm

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Drug smugglers hide $1.3 million worth of cocaine in UK face mask consignment

The cocaine, wrapped in 15 packages, was found in boxes full of face masks when a Polish-registered van bound for Britain was searched

Reuters
16 April, 2020, 06:45 pm
Last modified: 16 April, 2020, 06:51 pm
A person in a protective suit near St James' Park as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Newcastle, Britain, April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith
A person in a protective suit near St James' Park as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Newcastle, Britain, April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith

British customs officers have seized 14 kg of cocaine worth more than 1 million pounds ($1.25 million) that smugglers had hidden in a consignment of face masks in the UK customs zone of the Channel Tunnel.

The cocaine, wrapped in 15 packages, was found in boxes full of face masks when a Polish-registered van bound for Britain was searched, the interior ministry said. A 34-year-old Polish man was arrested.

"This seizure is further evidence of the way criminal networks are attempting to exploit the coronavirus outbreak to their own ends," said Darren Herbert, the National Crime Agency's operations manager for the port of Dover.

"We are now investigating who was behind this attempt, but what is clear is that they have taken a substantial hit. At UK street prices, this haul might have raised more than 1 million pounds once adulterated and cut down – profit that they have now been denied."

Ian Hanson, Border Force regional director at Coquelles, France, said such a seizure showed the lengths to which smugglers were willing to go.

Europe's cocaine market is worth more than $10 billion.

Global cocaine production rose to 1,976 tonnes of 100 percent pure in 2017 - the largest ever reported, according to the latest United Nations drug data. Production, mostly in Latin America, has risen 50 percent in the past decade.

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