Crime gang jailed after smuggling £2m of cannabis stashed in shipment of broccoli and kale
The crime gang created a business and hired a warehouse in Spain to try and cover its tracks.
The Daily Record
A “highly organised”crime gangwith ties throughout Europe were caught shipping £2million ofcannabisstashed in pallets of broccoli, kale and lettuce.
The crooks set up a business under false names, hired warehouse units in Malaga and the UK and even went to the effort of printing t-shirts with the logo of the fake company – LB Wholesale.
The group also organised a “dummy run”, sending an innocent shipment of broccoli, aubergine and lettuce around a month before they tried to import drugs into Seaforth docks, reports the Liverpool Echo.