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£5m drugs seizure
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SEVEN PEOPLE have been arrested following the seizure of £5m worth of drugs from a truck at Dover.
Officers from Merseyside and Kent police, the National Crime Squad and Customs & Excise swooped at an industrial estate near the port in the early hours of last Friday (12 December). The truck is believed to have arrived on a ferry from France.
Merseyside Police DCI Mark Wadmore says this seizure will have a major impact on the supply of drugs in the UK: "This is a significant result in our commitment to taking class A and B drugs off the street and cracking down on organised crime, We will continue to keep up the pressure on criminals who blight the lives of our communities." • A Portuguese operator has been jailed for 15 months for smuggling over 1.5 million cigarettes into Britain. At an earlier hearing Francisco Rafael Xavier de Silva of Mem pleaded had guilty to attempting to evade duty of E259,000.
Bournemouth Crown Court heard that on 28 August Customs stopped a Portuguese truck as it arrived in Poole from Cherbourg.They searched the vehide and discovered the cigarettes behind a consignment of plastic beakers. Officers arrested the driver of the truck and de Silva, its owner, who had travelled as a foot passenger on the same ferry: Customs spokesman Bob Gaiger says: "This is a clear warning to those who believe that cigarette smuggling is only a harmless tax fiddle. It is not."