Four men who smuggled drugs with a street value of more than £1.6m into the UK and Ireland have been jailed. The cocaine was imported from the Netherlands into England and then across by ferry through Northern Ireland. Seized by the National Crime Agency in February 2021, the drugs were hidden in a fuel tank in the back of a van.

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Four men who smuggled drugs from the Netherlands to Northern Ireland have been sentenced to a total of more than 53 years in jail.

Representative Image: Indian-origin man was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in the UK ( Image Source : Getty )

The drugs were transported from the Netherlands to England and then across on the ferry to Northern Ireland in fuel tanks being transported within a van, the NCA found.

Four men from a UK-based drugs gang have been jailed in England for smuggling large quantities of drugs through Belfast to Limerick, Leitrim, Wicklow and other parts of the country.