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A ring of creative
cocaine runners from the Netherlands to the UK has been convicted of supplying
British drug lords with £1.6 billion (US$2.4bn) worth of narcotics, by
carefully disguising them inside a fleet of fake ambulances. “Three
Dutch men have been convicted for their roles in supplying up to £1.6 billion
worth of drugs to organized crime groups across the UK using a fleet of fake
ambulances,” the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said in a statement.
The
fake ambulance company, based in Hoofddorp, North Holland, used smugglers
posing as paramedics to infiltrate UK borders on least on 45 occasions. On at
least one occasion a bogus patient was used to implement the scheme.
In
coordination with the NCA and the Dutch National Police, the officers
intercepted one of the ambulances back in June.
