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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

UPS worker ‘King’ jailed for 12 years over £10m cocaine smuggling operation

Zak Archbold arrives at Southwark Crown Court, in London, where the UPS worker is accused of orchestrating the importation of cocaine hidden in parcels (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

A UPS worker dubbed “King” who paved the way for £10 million of cocaine to be smuggled into Britain has been jailed for 12 years.

Zak Archbold, 30, was the inside man at the UPS depot in Stanford-le-Hope in Essex as parcels containing class A drugs were shipped into the country from the Netherlands.

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