- Drugs haul seized in Lytham St Annes after they arrive in the Port of Liverpool
- Three arrested at the scene, another three in Kirkham and seventh in Trafford
- Controlled substance was smuggled through shipping container carrying food
Seven men were arrested after cannabis with a street value of up to £4 million was brought to the UK on a shipping container from Spain.
The drugs haul came into the Port of Liverpool on the Wec Vermeer vessel on Sunday, and was tracked by the National Crime Agency (NCA) to Lancashire four days later.
The lorry driver and two men unloading the container, which had more than 400kg of cannabis inside, at industrial premises in Lytham St Annes on Wednesday were arrested and the drugs seized.
The National Crime Agency seized the cannabis at an industrial site in Lancashire after it was smuggle through Spain
The drugs were seized and seven men have been arrested after the £4million haul was intercepted
Three men in the Kirkham area, and a seventh suspect in the Trafford Park area of Greater Manchester were detained.
All of the suspects were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to import class B drugs and released under investigation on Thursday.
Greg McKenna, from the NCA said: ‘This is a significant disruption of an organised crime network that has stopped the proceeds of crime funding further criminality that would damage communities and exploit the vulnerable.
‘We take importations such as this very seriously, and these arrests show that we will detect criminal activity and arrest those responsible’
The drugs were smuggled in a shipping container from Spain that was transporting food to the UK
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