Truck driver is jailed for 11 years after being caught with £7.5million of cocaine stashed in pallet of boxes that he tried to smuggle into the UK Miodrag Ivankovic, 45, was caught at Dover, in Kent, in September last year He had tried to hide 207lb (94kg) of the Class A drug in pallet of boxes National Crime Agency officers cut into boxes and a white powder spilled out
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Miodrag Ivankovic, 45, tried to smuggle £7.5million worth of cocaine into the UK
A truck driver who tried to smuggle £7.5million worth of cocaine into the UK has been jailed for 11 years.
Miodrag Ivankovic, 45, was caught at the port of Dover, in Kent, in September last year after arriving from Calais.
He had tried to hide 207lb (94kg) of the Class A drug inside a pallet of boxes in his vehicle.
However, when officers from the National Crime Agency searched his truck and cut into the boxes, a white powder spilled out which was confirmed to be cocaine.
Ivankovic's DNA was on the boxes containing the drug and he admitted trying to smuggle it into