London (CNN)About £4 million ($5 million) worth of gold was seized at London’s Heathrow Airport by Border Force officers as part of an international investigation into a suspected South American drugs cartel.
The gold, which weighed 104 kilograms (229 pounds), was on its way to Switzerland from the Cayman Islands when it was seized on June 1. No arrests were made, police said.
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) — a governmental law enforcement organization — reported that the gold was believed to have originated in Venezuela, from where it was transported to the Cayman Islands on a private jet.
