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Three men have been arrested and 250kg of cocaine has been seized from a lorry after an operation targeting organised crime.
The trio, all Albanian nationals in their 30s, were held on Thursday by officers from a specialist law enforcement team, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
The arrests were made after the drugs, with a street value of £20 million, were recovered from a lorry in Dartford, Kent.
All three men remain in custody and are being questioned on suspicion of supplying class A drugs.
The specialist team, known as the London Organised Crime Partnership (OCP), is made up of officers from the NCA and the Metropolitan Police.
Andy Tickner of the OCP said: “This is a significant seizure of cocaine and without my officers’ efforts to seize it, it would have been on the streets of our communities feeding addiction and leading to other serious offences.”
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