A 60-year-old Dutchman and a 68-year-old Belgian have been arrested by the British border police after about 200 kilos of drugs were found in their van. The 125 kilos of cocaine and 70 kilos of heroin were hidden behind wooden wall panels, when checked at the Channel Tunnel entrance at Calais.
The drugs have an estimated street value of 17.7 million pounds, about 20.3 million euros, the Home Office in London announced today. She spoke of ‘one of the largest drug busts ever’ in the Channel Tunnel.
The drug bust took place on June 10, but was kept quiet until today due to the investigation. British Border Patrol agents checked the van when the two men tried to cross the tunnel border in Coquelles, northern France, into the United Kingdom. Behind the wooden walls of the vehicle, which had Belgian registration plates, they found the packages with drugs. They were glued to the outer wall of the bus with tape, as can be seen in the photos.
Both men have been charged with importing Class A drugs. These are considered the most dangerous because they can cause the greatest damage, which is why the maximum prison sentence is life. The case has been handed over to the National Crime Agency (NCA), the UK’s serious organized crime agency.
Just one example
UK Drugs Secretary Kit Malthouse called the case just one example of the hard work of Border Police and Customs “working around the clock to destroy the business model of drug gangs by cracking down on their supply chains”.
“The human cost of narcotics is tragic and so our 10-year drug strategy describes the action we are taking to make our streets safer by tackling the drug supply and treating those enslaved to addiction,” the news channel GB wrote. News coming out of his mouth.
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