How burger-van cuppa led to £80m international drugs bust
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The container was supposed to include 29 ordinary pallets of steel furniture and had been sealed before leaving Mexico.
A plot to move £80 million of cocaine from South America to the UK was foiled when onlookers spotted suspicious activity during a lorry driver's tea break.
The container was supposed to include 29 ordinary pallets of steel furniture and had been sealed before leaving Mexico on September 30 2021.
But on November 26 that year, the driver of a lorry carrying it stopped to get a cup of tea from a burger van in Northampton and bystanders saw group of men remove large wrapped package from it before fleeing.
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