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Colombian cocaine worth £40,000,000 found hidden in boxes of bananas

Posted on July 31, 2022

The cocaine was on its way to the Netherlands (Picture: PA)

Cocaine worth £40 million has been smuggled into a port on the River Thames hidden in a box of bananas.

Officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) seized more than than half a tonne of the Class A drug on a boat travelling from Colombia at London Gateway on the Essex coast.

Huge slabs of cocaine were found wedged alongside bananas in cardboard boxes.

The shipment had been on route to The Netherlands when investigators discovered it.

NCA branch operations manager Adam Berry described the seizure as a ‘huge blow’ to the peddlers.

He said: ‘Taking out a consignment of this size will have been a huge blow to the criminal network involved in this shipment, preventing them from making millions of pounds that would have been invested in further criminality.


Undated handout photo issued by National Crime Agency (NCA) of some of the cocaine worth ?40 million that was discovered smuggled within a batch of bananas at a port on the Thames. The NCA said officers seized more than half a tonne of the Class A drug on a boat travelling from Colombia, at London Gateway on the Essex coast, south-east England. Issue date: Saturday July 30, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Bananas. Photo credit should read: NCA/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
The cocaine slabs were found wedged in between the bananas (Picture: PA)

Undated handout photo issued by National Crime Agency (NCA) of cocaine worth ??40 million that was discovered smuggled within a batch of bananas at a port on the Thames. The NCA said officers seized more than half a tonne of the Class A drug on a boat travelling from Colombia, at London Gateway on the Essex coast, south-east England. Issue date: Saturday July 30, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Bananas. Photo credit should read: NCA/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
The NCA said this find would be a huge blow for the peddlers (Picture: PA)

‘Class A drugs are pedalled by gangs involved in violence and exploitation in our communities.

‘The NCA works hard with partners to stop drugs getting that far, and making seizures like this demonstrate how we can break that link between international drug cartels and street-level dealers.’

A large cannabis farm was also discovered last week in a former Metropolitan Police building on the Isle of Dogs, London.

The station, on Manchester Road, was sold in February this year.

No arrests have been made yet in to the cannabis farm but an investigation has been launched.

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.

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