Two men have been charged after a £3 million cocaine haul was uncovered in a purpose-built smuggling lorry in Dover.
Jason Bunce, 57, from Kingswood in Kent and Gary Sloan, 50, from Magheralin in Northern Ireland, will appear at Canterbury Magistrates’ Court on Saturday in connection with conspiracy to import Class A drugs.
A 40-year-old man from Dover, who was detained at a haulage yard, has been released under investigation.
At least 36 kilogrammes of cocaine was recovered by National Crime Agency investigators and Border Force officers in the operation on Thursday night.
Sloan was arrested after the discovery and Bunce was detained after being stopped near Dover.
NCA officers and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) also carried out searches of properties in Northern Ireland’s County Londonderry and County Armagh.
