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London husband and wife convicted after sending £57m of cocaine to Australia

Source: National Crime Agency

A married couple exported more than half-a-tonne of cocaine to Australia disguised as metal toolboxes and then laundered their ill-gotten gains.

Arti Dhir, 59, and Kavaljitsinh Raijada, 35, from Hanwell, west London, were unmasked after Australian border force seized the cocaine, worth

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