Some of the 104kg of gold was shaped in hearts, and some in bars. The National Crime Agency, which worked alongside authorities in the Caymans, traced the gold back to South America.
Around £4m worth of gold has been seized after being discovered in the cargo section of a plane at London's Heathrow Airport in 2019.
The National Crime Agency reclaimed 104kg of gold bars, some in the shape of hearts, in June 2019 on a plane that had arrived from the Cayman Islands and had stopped at Heathrow on its way to Switzerland.Working alongside authorities in the Caymans, the NCA was able to establish that a trail of false paperwork had been created by South American drug cartels to hide that the gold was from
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