A dockworker from the British city of Portsmouth was sentenced to 21 years in prison on Monday for being involved in an attempt to import 1,477 kilograms of cocaine. According to the British National Crime Agency (NCA), the drugs were intercepted by the Dutch police in the port of Vlissingen last year.
The cocaine with a street value of 118 million pounds (almost 138 million euros) was on its way from Colombia to the United Kingdom when the ship on which the drugs were transported made a stopover in Vlissingen. There, the Dutch police discovered the drugs and replaced them with fake drugs. The police cooperated with the NCA during the action.
CCTV footage showed the dock worker separating the pallets of bananas he thought contained the drugs upon arrival at the British port city and moving them to a separate warehouse. The NCA shared this footage with local police, who arrested the man as the fake drugs were trucked to a location in rural Britain.
A total of four men were arrested, including an accomplice of the man and the driver of the truck. They were convicted last year.
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