July 31, 2021- 3:40 p.m.
Miodrag Ivankovic, 45, was caught in the port of Dover, in Kent, in September last year, after arriving from Calais.
He had attempted to hide 207 pounds (94 kg) of the Class A drug in a pallet of boxes in his vehicle.
A truck driver who tried to smuggle £7.5 million worth of cocaine into the UK has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Ivankovic had attempted to hide 207 pounds (94 kg) of the Class A drug in a pallet of boxes in his vehicle.
loots found by agents“Drugs are a source of misery in British communities and the NCA will continue to do everything it can to combat the threat.
”It comes after German truck driver Kawus Rafiei, 57, was sentenced to 19 years in prison in March after attempting to smuggle half a tonne of cocaine worth £38 million into the UK via Dover.
“The organized crime group behind the plot has lost profits they would have plowed back into more offenses and they have lost a trusted smuggler.
The drug was found hidden in piles of tires in his truck.
Border Force agents had scanned Rafiei’s truck and “detected an anomaly in the cargo,” the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
Two shrink-wrapped stacks of tires inside the trailer were opened and revealed packages of cocaine weighing 1,036 pounds (470 kilograms).
And in the same month that Ivankovic’s crime was discovered, about a ton of cocaine was found hidden in loads of fruit, including in Dover.
The drugs, with a street value of around £100 million, were discovered in pallets that had arrived on a ship from South America.
The ‘massive seizure’ will now take away a ‘valuable commodity’ that would have been sold to fund further serious and organized crime,” the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
