A lorry driver who attempted to hide 16 kilos of cocaine in the battery area of an HGV has been jailed for seven years.
The National Crime Agency investigated Romans Gzibovskis, of Kastire, Latvia, after he was stopped at Dover’s Eastern Docks on 24 August this year.
Border Force officers scanned the vehicle and noticed an anomaly in the external battery compartment.
They found that the large HGV battery had been removed and replaced with smaller car batteries wired together. The class A drugs had been placed in the space left in between.
A total of 16 kilos of cocaine was found, which National Crime Agency experts estimate would have been worth approximately £650,000 at street level.
Working alongside Border Force, we will continue the fight against illegal drugs which pose such a threat to the public.
