Border Force officials could not say whether anyone had been arrested over the seizureThe drugs were found last Friday in a shipping container on a commercial vessel bound for Antwerp in Belgium, the UK's Border Force said.Home Secretary Priti Patel said the seizure had thwarted "drug smuggling on an industrial scale".The cocaine is thought to have been placed in the cargo in Colombia, Border Force said.
It was found when officers spotted "anomalies" during a routine inspection when the ship docked at the Hampshire port, the agency added. Regional director Tim Kingsberry said: "This significant seizure has removed a large amount of dangerous drugs from the streets... [and] also makes a huge dent in the profits of smugglers."
Hey JimmyBarnes enough here to get you through 1 night in the 1990s!! 😂😂😂
And about 500 tonnes got through, war on drugs can't be won unfortunately
Were they doing the bendy check?
Of course anyone with a brain would have worked out that this pandemic is a perfect cover for criminals. Wouldn’t they?
Bit different to Dutch Customs who can only sieze lorry drivers’ ham sandwiches!
not to be sniffed at
That explains why my bananas taste GREAT man.
A tonne? 🤯
The authority should sell it and use the money for the ophanage homes
A tonne of cocaine is not to be sniffed at.
Send the bananas back.
Who says we can't import stuff?
Well, isn’t that a coincidence then
Probably on it's way to Gove and mates
Bit of a slip up; but does give more credence to border controls over due.
Good show 👍👍👍👍
How many people are now going to go 'Bananas' over the weekend without their fix 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
No surprise this happens. Most of our bananas come from South America.
I was wondering where it had got to. Amazon owe me a refund!
What’s the tariff on coke.
Did Boris order it for the government?
Good drills
there appears to be two sides if one looks at reality customs tv, full of spectacular poor folks caught at columbian and european south american airports titivating a emgrossed populist tv viewing audience in the usa and syndicated to right wing soap opera channels in the uk
Brexits fault
I thought that last smoothie I had tasted differently 😂
Tonne? We're not in Europe now.
The Bullingdon boys won’t be happy
Somebody is going to be out of pocket on both sides of the drug dealing format. On the other hand its known for drug cartels to deliberately inform on a shipment so that the bigger shipment goes through..
Someone’s slipped up here!!....
Damn those EU shortages.😎🇬🇧
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