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Moment Police Raided Trader's Home over £20m of Cocaine in Frozen Fish Plot
Police said the gang used encrypted messages and legitimate businesses to conceal plans for 600kg of cocaine worth more than £20 million.
- On Friday, four men were sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London for conspiracy to import Class A drugs, receiving prison terms ranging from 13 to 22 years.
- Detectives dubbed the investigation the "Fish Conspiracy," as the gang planned to smuggle around 600kg of cocaine from South America hidden within frozen fish shipments bound for Billingsgate Market.
- The Metropolitan Police estimated the shipment's value at more than £20 million; DCI Dean Grafton stated the group was "operating on an industrial scale" after police decrypted EncroChat messages.
- Although the cocaine shipment never reached London, police uncovered separate schemes involving industrial quantities of ketamine, with intercepted messages revealing plans to source and process the drug across Europe.
- Close collaboration between the Metropolitan Police and the National Crime Agency led to the convictions; ringleaders Samuel Tokeley and Nicholas Shilling were based in Spain and the United Arab Emirates.
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Four jailed over £20m cocaine plot to hide drugs in frozen fish deliveries
Two Essex men jailed for plotting £20m cocaine import hidden in frozen fish for Billingsgate Market, after Met Police uncovered EncroChat messages.
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The Independent (US)Gang jailed for plotting to smuggle £20m worth of cocaine into London fish market
The four men were sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday
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