Drug smugglers’ plane which brought £2m of cocaine to Britain is put up for sale on eBay by police
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 26, 2013 20:27
A plane used by a gang of drug smugglers to bring nearly £2million of cocaine into theUKis being sold by police on eBay.
Detectives seized the plane when they brought down an international smuggling ring in Northamptonshire last year.
It will now be available to the highest bidder online with the sale money to be used by police to fight crime and set up community projects.
But the plane, which officers say will need some work to be airworthy again, will come at a price.
The Zenair Zodiac CH601 UL microlight has a reserve price of £12,000 on the online auction site.
The plane was used by drugs traffickers to fly a shipment of cocaine fromFranceto Northamptonshire last year.
The class A drugs – which had a street value of £1.7 million pounds – had been driven fromAmsterdamin theNetherlandsto northernFrancebefore being loaded onto the aircraft and flown across theEnglish Channel.
But the gang were thwarted at the final hurdle when a team from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit was on hand to arrest the smugglers as they landed.
Six British men, all from Corby, Northamptonshire, andLondonpleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs in November last year and were jailed for a combined total of 37 years.
Bidding on the plane end shortly after 8pm on March 4.
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