Pubdate: Sat, 24 July 1999
Source: Independent, The (UK)
Copyright: 1999 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd.
Contact:  1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5DL
Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/
Author: Nick Allen
Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n732.a03.html

BAD DEAL

Sir: You report (Review front, 20 July) how a team of Customs officers
netted a pounds 34m haul of cocaine in an operation that cost pounds 50m.
Why didn't they just buy it?

Nick Allen
Oxford

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