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Story summary
- Border Force seized a 2.9-tonne cocaine shipment worth £232 million hidden in a banana container at Gateway Port, Thurrock, Essex.
- The National Crime Agency tipped off Border Force about the consignment.
- Officers removed the drugs, delivered them to an address near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, and arrested nine men linked to the shipment.
- Senior investigating officer Dave Phillips said the seizure deprived the crime group of profits that could have funded further crime.
