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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jonathan Humphries

Liverpool cartel 'linked' to cocaine bricks by 'logo' on two tonne shipment

A "logo" on bricks of cocaine seized when a Liverpool crime syndicate was dismantled in Greece may link the suspects to a mammoth two tonne shipment of the drug.

The four British men, aged 38, 48, 45 and 52 and mostly from Merseyside, were detained in the port city of Thessaloniki on June 9, after unloading 300kg of cocaine which had been stashed in a shipment of bananas. The men were also linked to a previous 654kg shipment, seized in Calabria, Italy, in April.

A fifth Liverpool man, believed by the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be in Colombia, is also wanted in connection to the seizures and is described as at the top of a major international cartel.

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