On trial is Edmond Okoli, 43, of Tyrrell Road, London, who denies smuggling cocaine into Scotland in November 2005 and being concerned in the supply of the drug.cocaine with a potential street value of £500,000 was uncovered hidden in wooden packaging at Edinburgh Airport, a court heard.
The drugs were hidden by "very professional" drug smugglers, a jury at the city's High Court was told yesterday. They heard that police and customs officers searching through cheap vases from Peru drew a blank – until they turned their attention to the wooden packaging.
Some of the slats making up six wooden crates in a warehouse at Edinburgh Airport revealed a suspicious shadow when x-rayed.
The court heard the searchers noticed three lengths of wood in each of the crates was a slightly different colour. A total of six kilos of cocaine had been hidden in the wood. After the cocaine had been seized the crates were put back together, he said, and a bug was added to eavesdrop on conversations when they were picked up.
A white Toyota van was stopped as it headed south on the M74, with Okoli inside the court was told. .
The drugs were hidden by "very professional" drug smugglers, a jury at the city's High Court was told yesterday. They heard that police and customs officers searching through cheap vases from Peru drew a blank – until they turned their attention to the wooden packaging.
Some of the slats making up six wooden crates in a warehouse at Edinburgh Airport revealed a suspicious shadow when x-rayed.
The court heard the searchers noticed three lengths of wood in each of the crates was a slightly different colour. A total of six kilos of cocaine had been hidden in the wood. After the cocaine had been seized the crates were put back together, he said, and a bug was added to eavesdrop on conversations when they were picked up.
A white Toyota van was stopped as it headed south on the M74, with Okoli inside the court was told. .
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