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Fri 03 Mar 2010Ex-officer gets 22 years over cocaine smuggling plot
A FORMER Metropolitan policeman and detective who was “pivotal” to a €200 million cocaine-smuggling plot that ended in rough seas off the coast of Cork was jailed for 22 years in London yesterday.
The conspiracy was foiled when the gang’s boat ran out of fuel and foundered off Mizen Head on July 2nd, 2007.
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