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- The Home Office says border agents seized about five tons of cocaine at London Gateway, worth over £400 million ($538 million).
- The drugs were concealed in cargo including a banana shipment and a vat of South American wine.
- The seizure follows a trend of port busts, including a March case charging three men with smuggling nearly $100 million of cocaine via Southampton Docks.
- Authorities worldwide report similar banana shipment smuggling methods.
