‘I had no idea my company was used to make 37 shipments of up to £57m worth of cocaine a time,’ says ex civil servant

A woman accused of exporting huge amounts of cocaine out of the UK has insisted she had no idea her company was being used to ship the drug to Australia. Former civil servant Arti Dhir, 59, and her 34 year-old husband Kaval Raijada sent vast quantities of the class-A drug to Australia, between 2019 and 2021, it is claimed. One shipment alone was found to contain over half a tonne of cocaine, with an estimated street value in Australia of…