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Dans le détroit de Gibraltar, la porte d’entrée de la Méditerranée, les réseaux de trafics sont nombreux. La douane française cible donc en priorité les trafiquants de cigarettes, de cannabis, mais surtout de cocaïne, en provenance du Maroc ou de l’Atlantique. Marc Fiévet doit enregistrer les conversations auxquelles il assiste, prendre des photos, récolter des informations sur les bateaux français qui circulent dans la marina. Puis, un jour, on lui demande de s’infiltrer parmi les narcotrafiquants.

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Five men have been charged in relation to an at-sea cocaine smuggling attempt, following a National Crime Agency investigation.

NCA officers seized 425kg of the Class A drug worth £34m on Monday afternoon. The drugs were brought into Eastbourne Marina on the New Horizon fishing vessel following collection in the English Channel.

Today (Wednesday), five men appeared at Brighton & Hove Magistrates’ Court and were remanded to appear at Lewes Crown Court on 8 July.

The following are charged with conspiring to fraudulently evade a prohibition on the importation of a Class A drug:

• Alan John Colquhoun, 49, of Oberon, Alloa, Clackmannanshire.
• William Donohoe, 38, of Sycamore Drive, Craigneuk, Airdrie.
• Ian Smith, 49, of New College Close, Eastbourne, East Sussex.
• Jacob Cronin, 31, of Elgar Way, Eastbourne, East Sussex.
• Daniel Ruffell, 35, of Humber Way, Slough, Berkshire

10 June 2026

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Five men are in custody and more than £30m of cocaine has been recovered following a National Crime Agency investigation.

NCA officers struck shortly after 1300 yesterday (Monday) arresting the suspects at Eastbourne Marina and seizing 425kg of the Class A drug which has a street value of £34m.

It is alleged four of the men had returned to shore on the fishing vessel New Horizon after collecting the drugs which had been dropped in the English Channel by another vessel.

The fifth man was not on the boat and was arrested when the other four returned to harbour.

The men, aged 32 to 49, are from Scotland and Eastbourne and remain in custody for questioning following the operation, which was supported by the NCA’s Maritime, Aviation & Military Intervention Cell.

The NCA was also assisted by the Joint Maritime Security Centre, Sussex Police and Police Scotland where a number of searches have been carried out.

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A criminal family and their associates smuggled almost £30 million of cash out of the UK to the United Arab Emirates hidden in suitcases.

A National Crime Agency investigation showed that the group worked with a British Dubai-based organiser to smuggle the money via Dubai-bound Emirates flights leaving from Manchester, Birmingham and Brussels airports between December 2017 and November 2019.

Couriers smuggled the criminal cash in up to five suitcases at a time, sometimes helped by corrupt Emirates check-in attendant Emma Rauf, who worked at Manchester Airport.

Graham, Jeffrey, Jobe, Logan, Noel, Noel, Rauf & Royle

The alleged organiser, who is awaiting extradition to the UK to face trial and cannot be named for legal reasons, instructed his subordinates to collect cash from organised crime groups in the UK and fly it out to the UAE without declaring it on departure as the law requires.

The couriers would pack hundreds of thousands of pounds of cash at a time concealed in clothes in suitcases. They were put up in expensive Dubai hotels and had meals and visits to expensive nightclubs and beach clubs paid for.

The plan began to fall apart after £788,455 in cash was seized at UK airports in two separate incidents, prompting the NCA’s investigation.

Rauf (nee Royle), 34, and her 32-year-old brother Ben Royle, both from Wilmslow, Cheshire, were also involved in the money laundering arrangement.

Rauf abused her position as a check-in desk attendant by waiving through suitcases full of cash flown out by couriers even when they were in excess of the weight limit.

When she was not working she liaised with colleagues who were, instructing them to treat excess baggage in the same way.

Sheldon NOEL with cash

When one of the couriers was stopped by Border Force, and the cash seized, Rauf made enquiries to find out why this had happened to help avoid fellow couriers being caught.

She flew to and from the UAE herself seven times over a period of seven months, reporting into work as being sick. Mobile phone messages showed that she knew the alleged organiser was flying people carrying cash on the same route.

She changed her plea to guilty on 23 March this year after initially denying the offence of entering into or becoming concerned in a money laundering arrangement to remove cash from the UK to Dubai.

In October 2018 Rauf and Royle collected £406,500 of criminal cash and left it in the boot of her car which she parked on her parent’s drive in Hale, Altrincham.

Someone broke into the car and stole the cash, prompting the alleged organiser to ask the pair to take lie detector tests to prove they had not taken it.

Later, following the theft, a gunman sprayed the parent’s house with bullets, one of which penetrated the front door. Several others went through the living room window, one of which entered the sofa before lodging in the wall behind. Fortunately, nobody was home at the time.

This shooting followed threats from the criminal who owned the money that anyone found responsible for stealing it would be killed.

Bullet case markings on drive

The money laundering arrangement worked by network members collecting cash from criminal groups around northern England including Manchester, Liverpool, Southport, Sheffield and Huddersfield.

Those who assisted were:

• Sophie Logan, 31, who had been living in Dubai but formerly of Derby, said she worked as a personal assistant to the alleged organiser. She flew to and from Dubai 38 times over a two-year period, declared cash totalling £2.2 million on arrival in Dubai on 14 occasions.
• Devanyl Graham, 26, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, flew to Dubai 18 times declaring a total of £3.1 million in cash on arrival.
• Heather Jeffrey, 58, the alleged organiser’s aunt, her son Sheldan Noel, 30, and daughter Lamara Noel, 34, all from Bradford, collected cash from organised crime groups and flew it to Dubai. They smuggled out at least £4,051,558, £5,894,048 and £1,237,500 respectively. The alleged organiser used a WhatsApp group to instruct the trio, with messages showing that Jeffrey was told to pick up cash from Huddersfield and Sheffield in May 2018.
• Ben Royle recruited friend, Sheikh Jobe, 33, from Manchester, to fly £306,040 in cash from Manchester Airport in October 2018. However, the cash was detected in Jobe’s luggage after he had checked it in, resulting in his arrest and the money being seized.

A jury at Bolton Crown Court convicted Devanyl Graham, Sheldan Noel, Lamara Noel, Jeffrey and Sophie Logan yesterday (4 June) following a 12-week trial. Emma Rauf changed her plea to guilty on 23 March, with Royle and Jobe pleading guilty at hearings before the trial started.

Logan, Graham, Sheldan Noel, Royle, Lamara Noel, Jeffrey and Jobe are due to be sentenced at the same court on 1 October, while Emma Rauf’s sentencing is due to take place on 30 Octoberr

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Plus d’une tonne de résine de cannabis a été saisie en Essonne, au domicile d’un homme qui a été interpellé et placé en garde à vue ce mercredi, a annoncé à l’AFP le parquet d’Evry. Une enquête « avait permis d’identifier un homme de 45 ans soupçonné de fournir en résine de cannabis plusieurs trafiquants d’Ile-de-France », a déclaré le parquet. A son domicile, 1,3 tonne de résine de cannabis a été découverte, a précisé cette même source.

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