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A Dutch man has been found guilty over an operation to use a fleet of fake ambulances to smuggle drugs with a street value of £1.6bn into the UK.
Father-of-four Leonardus Bijlsma, 55, was described as the "right-hand man" in the operation involving specially adapted vehicles and using ports from Essex to East Yorkshire...
... When officers examined the ambulance they found concealed compartments behind metal rivet panels containing colour-coded parcels.
Inside was 193kg of cocaine worth £30m, 74kg heroin worth £8m in individual deals, and ecstasy tablets and crystal worth £60,000...
... Fake invoices and paperwork for false patient transfers to The Royal London Hospital were produced by Schoon's company, despite the hospital having no records of any trips, with false addresses and phone numbers for patients also made.
The scheme ran from April last year until the arrest of the quartet, with Schoon believed to have made 39 separate journeys.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ngham-34947837
All too simple it seems and I wonder how many more examples there are of this sort of thing going on? This time it was huge amounts of drugs but it could have been weapons, explosives or anything else for that matter couldn't it?
