Four Ghanaians In UK Found Guilty Of Smuggling £4.3 Million Worth Of Narcotics In Gari: "Huge Haul"
- Four Ghanaians have been convicted of smuggling £4.3 million worth of narcotics from Ghana to the United Kingdom
- The narcotics were reportedly discovered in a shipping container at Tilbury Docks after a National Crime Agency sting
- Security personnel in the UK were said to have found 2,335 packages of narcotics weighing a combined 1.5 tonnes
Four Ghanaians in the UK have been found guilty of smuggling £4.3 million worth of narcotics hidden in sacks of gari from Ghana to the UK.
The narcotics were reportedly discovered inside a shipping container at Tilbury Docks following a National Crime Agency sting.
Source: UGC
Essex Live reported that the suspects were identified as Daniel Yeboah, Kristoffen Baidoo, Kwaku Bonsu, and Edward Adjei. They were found guilty after a three-week trial.
On December 19, 2019, the container with the narcotics arrived at the South Essex docks from Ghana.
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A search confirmed that 2,335 packages of the narcotics weighed a combined 1.5 tonnes inside white hessian sacks of Gari.
The narcotics were seized from the sacks and replaced with dummy packages.
How were the narcotics suspects caught?
On the morning of January 13, 2020, officers monitored the container which Yeboah signed for using a fake signature.
Bonsu photographed the container using his mobile phone while Adjei was spotted dropping Baidoo off at the yard.
When they realised the narcotics were missing, they ran off but were tailed by police officers and arrested later the day. All four men will be sentenced on October 18.
British nationals nabbed at KIA
Ghana has made arrests of its own in the past with two British nationals being picked up at the Kotoka International Airport for attempting to transport narcotics to the UK.
The arrest happened on Monday, June 10, 2024, as the duo were about to board a British Airways flight to Gatwick.
The Narcotics Control Commission collaborated with the UK National Crime Agency for the arrest.
Nigerian jailed for narcotics trafficking
YEN.com.gh also reported that a Nigerian was given a 10-year prison sentence after he was nabbed while trying to smuggle narcotics out of Ghana.
Pascal Okafor Ezugwu, aged 32, reportedly had 90 thumb-sized pellets of narcotics when he was arrested while trying to leave the country.
NACOC had assured Ghanaian citizens at the time that they would ensure public safety by working to prevent the sale and trafficking of narcotics.
Proofread by Bruce Douglas, senior copy editor at YEN.com.gh
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