Merseyside gang jailed over £140m fake company cocaine plot

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The gang organised the importation using a fake company which claimed to handle Amazon and Argos returns.

Members of a gang have been jailed over a plan to import £140m of cocaine into the UK using a fake company which claimed to handle returned goods from Amazon and Argos.

Schofield, of Liverpool, and Mockett, of Chorley, earlier admitted conspiracy to import cocaine, while Martland was convicted after a trial over the 1.3 tonne importation plot. The NCA said the drugs were supposed to be delivered from Africa to an industrial unit in Wigan but were intercepted in August 2022 by Border Force officers at a port in Suffolk.

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