11/27/2021- 5:39 p.m.
Three men have been jailed for a combined 40 years, after being found guilty of plotting a £4.5 million drug smuggling venture.
NCA officers watched as the trio had a series of clandestine meetings as the planned to import class A drugs utilising Rolls Royce-driving Wright’s legitimate removals company.
Covert listening devices deployed by the NCA picked up a conversation at a meeting at a café in Kent in July 2020 where they were heard discussing border controls. Youell told Rumbold and Wright: “We’re gonna hit the jackpot” and that they were going to make “f***ing mega dough”.
Wright carried out a ‘dummy run’, taking his lorry out to The Netherlands. He made a series of notes around border checks and security on his phone as he returned.
The following week Wright made the run for real, collecting the drugs, which had been sealed inside fish tanks.
However, as part of a joint operation involving the NCA and Dutch law enforcement, the truck was raided just outside Utrecht. Wright, who was sleeping inside, was arrested.� �Dutch police recovering 20.5 kilos of heroin, 32 kilos of cocaine and three kilos of MDMA, which combined would have had a UK street value of around £4.5 million.
We are determined to do all we can to disrupt and dismantle the organised criminal networks involved in international drugs supply.
