Yesterday, a suspected £90 million worth of cocaine was discovered on a beach in West Wales.
On a morning stroll, a member of the public came across around 30 black sacks, each holding 30 packets of what seemed to be 1kg bricks of the Class A substance.
The project manager, who is in his 30s, came upon the bags while strolling along Tan-y-Bwlch beach close to Aberystwyth.
The empty gallon jerry cans were used to provide the black bags, which were lashed together with rope and washed up on the coast, buoyancy.
The name of the clothing company Dior was written within the labels of the alleged 1 kilogram blocks.
Cocaine that washed up in the US Gulf of Mexico earlier this year was marked with “Dior,” and cocaine parcels in Australia last year also had the designer’s name.
‘I went out on my early morning stroll when I observed something on the beach,’ the walker, who wished to remain unnamed, told The Mail on Sunday.
I approached it out of curiosity and almost immediately recognized what it was.
“An elderly woman contacted the police, and they arrived a half-hour later.” When a bag was cut open, it was clear that it contained just cocaine. They removed it by dragging it off the sand.
The National Crime Agency’s most recent strategic threat assessment estimates the daily value of the UK cocaine market at about £25.7 million.
According to data issued by the government earlier this year, national cocaine seizures increased by 161% between the beginning of 2020 and the beginning of last year.