UK authorities seized almost 1.3 tons of heroin with a street value of £120 million ($148 million) from a container ship, in the nation's largest ever bust involving the drug.
Officers from the National Crime Agency and the Border Force found the heroin hidden in a cargo of towels and bathrobes when the MV Gibraltar docked at Felixstowe on August 30, according to an NCA statement.The 1,297 kilogram haul would sell for £27 million at wholesale prices, but its value would rocket to £120 million at street level, the NCA said.The haul follows a 398 kilogram seizure at the port of Felixstowe in August.
Dutch and Belgian law enforcement officers tracked its progress and later arrested four people who were unloading in Rotterdam."This is a huge seizure -- there is no other word for it given the quantities involved -- which has kept dangerous drugs off the streets of the UK and mainland Europe," said Jenny Sharp, Border Force Assistant Director at Felixstowe.
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