Drugs were in suitcases on board a private plane According to the BBC, the British National Agency for Combating Crime has already stated that this is one of the largest consignments of cocaine ever seized in the country.

Police of the country detained five passengers on suspicion of importing drugs. Two of them are British, two are Spanish and one is Italian.

A representative of the border service said that officers searched the plane and found drugs in 15 suitcases, each had 34 to 37 packets weighing about a kilogram each.

The plane arrived from the Colombian capital of Bogota.

At the same time, the cost of the detected drug, according to preliminary estimates, is about 50 million pounds sterling or about 70.6 million dollars. Members of the aircraft crew were interrogated and released without charge.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, a Moldovan citizen tried to take drugs from Ukraine in chocolate kinder-surprise. During the inspection of the car Ukrainian border guards noticed the nervous behavior of the 58-year-old man and decided to check it.