Customs Law Enforcement officers last night seized the biggest haul of cocaine this year in the UK.
Approximately 650 kilos of cocaine with a street value £40 million sterling was detected and six men have been arrested.
The cocaine was concealed within components of a shipment of heavy plant machinery which arrived at Felixstowe on November 13th from Ecuador.
A surveillance operation, code-named Elysian, was mounted from Manchester and ended last night with two arrests at an industrial unit in Wolverhampton.
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Customs officers swooped in during an attempt to remove the cocaine from the machinery. A further four arrests were made; two in North Wales, one in Leicester and one in Telford.
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