Albanians who smuggled £200m worth of cocaine in banana cargo get 116 years

Five Albanian drug smugglers who posed as wholesale grocers to import £200m worth of cocaine inside a consignment of bananas have been jailed for a total of 116 years. Just over 2.3 tonnes was secreted in a cargo of 41 pallets of fruit in Colombia, which was intercepted when it arrived at Portsmouth harbour in February 2021. Officers replaced the cocaine with more fruit and pretended to be lorry drivers to deliver the drugs to a bogus grocery warehouse the…