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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mathilde Grandjean

How drug traffickers used foie gras and duck breast to conceal £8m worth of cocaine

The haul of cocaine was hidden beneath foie gras - (National Crime Agency)

Four men have been jailed for attempting to smuggle £8 million worth of cocaine into the UK concealed beneath a cargo of foie gras and duck breast.

Michael Keating, 56, his brother Matthew Keating, 49, Tanvir Hussain, 46, and Pierre Labelle, 48, were sentenced at Hove Crown Court on Friday following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). The elaborate scheme was foiled in November 2019 when Border Force officers stopped their van as it entered Newhaven, East Sussex, from Dieppe.

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