Big drugs find at Birmingham Airport
16.09.08
Six kilos (13.2lbs) of cocaine have been seized at Birmingham Airport. Customs officers said the drugs, with an estimated value of £270,000, 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 accused of the illegal importation of class A drugs. It is the third seizure of the drug by customs officers at the airport in the past 12 days.
Just five days earlier, on September 7, Serafin Martin Vicente, 22, of Malaga, Spain, was charged on suspicion of smuggling an estimated eight kilos of cocaine worth around £360,000 which was allegedly found in his luggage when he had got off a plane from Cancun, Mexico.
On September 1, officers found Anton Montgomery de la Gey, 39, of Johannesburg, South Africa, allegedly smuggling around four kilos of cocaine worth £180,000 through the airport after arriving on a flight from Nairobi.
All three men appeared in court yesterday charged with the illegal importation of Class A drugs and were 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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