A drugs smuggler who used a secret compartment in a van to import Hugo Boss branded cocaine into Britain worth millions of pounds has been jailed. Frederikus Prosman, 51, helped an international crime gang transport huge quantities of class A and class B drugs into the country from the Netherlands.
A court heard he concealed cocaine, ketamine and cannabis inside an internal fake side of a grey Ford Connect van as he transported it over the Channel by ferry. The Dutch citizen then drove it to stash houses across England, including in the West Midlands, London, Liverpool, Slough and Halifax.
The East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) found Prosman came to the UK 46 times in 2017, using the same van on the ferry from Rotterdam into Hull. He was linked to the seizure of 35kg of cocaine, which was found along with 100kg of ketamine from a stash houses in Willenhall, West Midlands, in December 2017.
