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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Emily Pennink

Drug smugglers jailed after £200m of cocaine found in banana boxes

A drug-smuggling gang has been jailed after cocaine with a street value of £200 million was intercepted in a shipment of bananas – making it the UK’s largest haul of the drugs at the time.

Crime boss Petko Zhutev was in charge of taking delivery of the Colombian drugs at a London warehouse in February 2021 – unaware it had already been seized by border officials at Portsmouth.

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