The National Crime Agency has obtained a civil recovery order for gold worth an estimated £4 million that was being laundered by South American drug cartels

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Published: 10:08 pm March 21, 2023

Updated: 10:04 am October 8, 2025

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NCA financial investigators took up the case after the shipment of gold weighing 104 kilos was seized at Heathrow in June 2019.

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The gold was in the cargo section of a plane which had arrived from the Cayman Islands.

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