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Fake Ambulances Smuggle £1.6bn Worth Of Drugs Into Uk. by Nobody: 10:26pm On Nov 27, 2015 |
A British court on Friday
convicted a Dutchman of
conspiring to smuggle drugs
with a street value of £1.6 billion
(2.3 billion euros, $2.4 billion) in a
fleet of fake ambulances into
Britain.
The gang used bogus paramedic
uniforms to drive ambulances
packed with drugs across the
Channel, with at least 45 trips
identified over a 14-month
period, the court heard.
One ambulance vehicle found by
British police in June contained
193 kilos (426 pounds) of
cocaine, 74 kilos of heroin and
60,000 ecstasy tablets hidden in
seven compartments behind
metal plates.
Prosecutor Robert Davies said
the police tipped off Dutch
authorities, who found “a fleet”
of similarly adapted ambulances
at two yards in the Netherlands.
It is estimated the operation may
have seen £420 million in high-
purity drugs into Britain with a
street value four times that
amount, prosecutors said.
The man convicted at
Birmingham Crown Court on
Friday was 55-year-old
Leonardus Bijlsma.
Two other Dutchmen, Olof
Schoon and Richard Engelsbel,
had already admitted the
charges.
All three will be sentenced next
week.
“There will be some very
frustrated high-level criminals
out there who, given the size of
their orders, will have lost a lot of
money,” said Rob Lewin from
Britain’s National Crime Agency. |
Re: Fake Ambulances Smuggle £1.6bn Worth Of Drugs Into Uk. by Osirimononaye(m): 10:34pm On Nov 27, 2015 |
*End Time Smuggling* |
Re: Fake Ambulances Smuggle £1.6bn Worth Of Drugs Into Uk. by dikeigbo2(m): 11:07pm On Nov 27, 2015 |
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