Britain’s biggest coke seizure hidden in Colombian bananas

One of Britain’s biggest ever seizures of cocaine was found hidden in a consignment of Colombian bananas, a court heard. More than two tonnes of the drug worth ‘well over’ £200m was recovered from a food storage unit in Enfield, north London. Bulgarian Petko Zhutev, 38, is accused of smuggling 2,330 one kilo blocks of cocaine in February 2021. ‘On 18 February 2021 two police officers, acting covertly as lorry drivers delivered a consignment of bananas to a warehouse and…

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