Three big drugs finds
16.09.08
There have been three big drugs fines at Birmingham Airport in 12 days. Six kilos (13.2lbs) of cocaine have been seized by Customs officers, with an estimated value of £270,000. They were found on Friday in luggage from a flight from Duala, Cameroon, via Paris. Martial Olivier Bekono, 34, of Rotterdam, Holland, was remanded in custody by magistrates in Solihull yesterday accused of the illegal importation of class A drugs.
Just 5 days earlier Serafin Martin Vicente, 22, of Malaga, Spain, was charged on suspicion of smuggling an estimated 8 kilos of cocaine worth around £360,000 found in his luggage when he had got off a plane from Cancun, Mexico.
And on September 1, officers caught Anton Montgomery de la Gey, 39, of Johannesburg, South Africa, smuggling around 4 kilos of cocaine worth £180,000 through the airport after arriving on a flight from Nairobi.
The three men appeared in court yesterday charged with the illegal importation of Class A drugs and were all remanded in custody. John Theobald, senior investigation officer for HM Revenue and Customs, said: ‘These hauls of class A drugs show the success of our operations to stem the flow of drugs reaching the streets of the West Midlands.’
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