£186m worth of coke hidden in shipment of bananas

Three drug smugglers brought £186 million worth of cocaine into the UK hidden inside a consignment of Colombian bananas, a court heard. Police intercepted a delivery of 41 pallets of fruit containing 2,330kg of cocaine at Portsmouth harbour in February 2021, the Old Bailey heard. Petko Zhutev, 39, Erik Muci, 44, and Olsi Ebeja, 40, deny fraudulent evasion of prohibited class ‘A’ drugs. Officers removed the cocaine, replacing it with more bananas and posed as lorry drivers to deliver the…