Fish smuggling made an eely good profit

A pensioner who smuggled more than £53 million worth of rare baby eels to the Far East from a barn in the west country, is facing jail. Gilbert Khoo, 66, imported the elvers from Spain before hiding them under hauls of chilled fish and sending them off to Heathrow. The European glass eels also known as Anguilla Anguilla, were bound for Malaysia and Hong Kong, where they are a culinary delicacy. Khoo sparked an NCA probe when Border Force officials…

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