£35m cannabis seized in two containers at Seaforth docks, seven held
Customs and Excise officers seized an estimated £35 million of cannabis from two freight containers at Seaforth docks in Liverpool. Seven people from addresses in Britain were in custody after the raid.
Customs and Excise officers seized cannabis worth an estimated £35 million sterling (€52 million)
in raids on two freight containers at Seaforth docks in Liverpool on the evening of 14 April
2004.[1]The containers were full of brick-sized slabs of the drug.[1]
Seven people were in custody after the operation: six men and a woman, all from addresses in
Britain.[1]The article names none of them and gives no weight for the cannabis.[1]
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