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UK's Largest Mainland Drugs Seizure: £300m Worth of Drugs Intercepted

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Detectives intercepted a lorry containing £300 million worth of drugs in what police have said is the ‘UK’s largest mainland drugs seizure’. The huge drugs bust followed a covert operation by Greater Manchester Police acting on intelligence. It ended with the seizure of a shipment worth an ‘immense’ value on the streets, which had been imported into the country via a port in the south. Drug bosses recruited a Wigan-based team to courier the narcotics - a metric tonne of heroin and ketamine with a street value of £300 million - to the North West. But they were unaware that their every move was being tracked by police.

Detectives intercepted a lorry containing £300 million worth of drugs in what police have said is the ‘UK’s largest mainland drugs seizure’. The huge drugs bust followed a covert operation by Greater Manchester Police acting on intelligence. It ended with the seizure of a shipment worth an ‘immense’ value on the streets, which had been imported into the country via a port in the south.

Drug bosses recruited a Wigan-based team to courier the narcotics - a metric tonne of heroin and ketamine with a street value of £300 million - to the North West. But they were unaware that their every move was being tracked by police. READ MORE: Woman appears in court after two friends killed in crash The HGV containing the drugs - hidden in bags of basmati rice - was intercepted at Keele services off the M6. Now two Wigan men have faced justice for their roles in the staggering seizur

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