Heroin with a boulevard worth of greater than £120m ($148 million) has been discovered hidden amongst towels and dressing robes on board a container ship, reports The Guardian.
Heroine among dressing gowns?
£120m haul was removed by police at Felixstowe before container continued on to the Netherlands, where four people were arrested.
Heroin with a street value of more than £120m has been discovered hidden among towels and dressing gowns on board a container ship.
Largest ever Class A drug seizure
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the haul weighing nearly 1.3 tonnes represented the largest ever seizure of the class A drug in the UK and one of the largest in Europe.
It was recovered from a container on board the MV Gibraltar after it docked at Felixstowe on 30 August.
Drugs in cover labelled protein powder?
The drugs were stored in packets labelled as protein powder, which were inside boxes filled with towels and dressing gowns.
Jenny Sharp, Border Force assistant director at Felixstowe, said some of the 1kg blocks of heroin had been stitched inside towels and it took officers nearly six hours to remove them.
Four arrested
After the drugs were removed, officers returned the container to the ship, which continued to Antwerp and docked in the Belgian port city on 1 September.
The container was kept under surveillance by Dutch and Belgian law enforcement agencies as it was driven by lorry to a warehouse in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
On arrival, officers swooped in and arrested four people as they unloaded the container.
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Source: The Guardian
