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Massive increase in cannabis being smuggled to UK airports in suitcases

The amount of cannabis seized from smugglers carrying the drug in suitcases to UK airports has tripled in less than a year, officials have revealed. So far in 2024 around 15 tonnes of the drug has been uncovered at airports, compared to five tonnes ...

28 Aug 2024 at 06:17

Four jailed after smuggled heroin and cocaine stored in North Wales farm

Four men have been jailed for their roles in a plot which saw £250 million worth of class A drugs smuggled into the country and stored in a North Wales farm. As part of the conspiracy, masterminded from Dubai, heroin and cocaine came from South ...

21 Mar 2024 at 21:11

Home Office minister praises joint EU operation to smash drug smuggler gangs

Home Office minister Seema Malhotra has hailed a joint operation with European Union partners, which has seized more than £66 million worth of cocaine, as the future for tackling organised drug gangs as well as people smugglers. Border Force ...

29 Aug 2025 at 02:45

Huge haul of cocaine worth £200m hidden in bananas, court told

Cocaine worth £200 million was seized by authorities after being smuggled into the UK in banana boxes, a court has heard. Border officials at Portsmouth uncovered four pallets containing 2,330 blocks of the Class A drug weighing 2.3 tonnes ...

11 May 2023 at 16:17

Drug smugglers jailed after £200m of cocaine found in banana boxes

A drug-smuggling gang has been jailed after cocaine with a street value of £200 million was intercepted in a shipment of bananas – making it the UK’s largest haul of the drugs at the time. Crime boss Petko Zhutev was in charge of taking ...

03 Dec 2024 at 20:13

Drug smugglers guilty over £200m cocaine haul stashed in bananas

A drug-smuggling gang is facing years behind bars after cocaine with a street value of £200 million was intercepted in a consignment of bananas – making it the UK’s largest haul of the drugs at the time. Crime boss Petko Zhutev was in ...

11 Oct 2024 at 10:17

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Special Criminal Court to hear case of four men accused of conspiring to smuggle drugs into Ireland

Four men who have been accused of conspiring to import a large amount of controlled drugs into Ireland last year have now had their cases transferred to the non-jury Special Criminal Court. Pedro Pablo Ojeda Ortega (36) of Cadiz, ...

21 Jan 2025 at 17:09

World

‘They won’t be doing it again’ says Trump after airstrike on drug cartel boat

President Donald Trump has justified the lethal military strike that his administration said was carried out against a Venezuelan gang as a necessary effort by the United States to send an unmistakable message to Latin American ...

04 Sept 2025 at 07:44

Northern Ireland

More than £3m seized from cross-border ‘money-laundering nexus’, says NCA chief

More than £3 million in cash has been seized following the disruption of a cross-border “money-laundering nexus”, the chief executive of the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said. Graeme Biggar told the Policing Board in ...

11 Dec 2025 at 19:33

Ireland

Cannabis worth almost three million euro is seized

Cannabis worth almost three million euro has been seized in Limerick. On Thursday, gardai and Revenue officers seized 147 kilogrammes of herbal cannabis with an estimated value of approximately 2,940,000 euro in the ...

20 Jun 2025 at 11:11

World

Three Britons accused of smuggling drugs face the death penalty in Indonesia

Three British nationals accused of smuggling nearly a kilogram of cocaine into Indonesia have been charged in a court on the tourist island of Bali. They face the death penalty under the country’s strict drug laws. ...

03 Jun 2025 at 13:54

Pensioner who smuggled £640,000 worth of cocaine in mobility scooter jailed

A pensioner who attempted to smuggle cocaine worth more than £600,000 into the UK hidden in his mobility scooter has been jailed. Eight kilograms of the drug was found in the back seat panel of Ronald Lord’s ...

08 Sept 2025 at 15:50

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