HOLLAND - Four British men are saying hallo to jail time in Holland after getting caught for shipping £80 million-worth of cocaine tucked inside a shipment of bananas, or about $113,060,000 USD. The shipment, hailing from South America, was being unloaded in a Medemblik, Holland-based warehouse, when police found the illicit substance stored inside.

According to The Daily Star, the four men involved—Lee Hughes, 31, Peter Scott, 35, Peter Lewtas, 58, and David Taylor, 35—are all from Liverpool and were all sentenced to jail by an Amsterdam court for three-and-a-half years. In addition to these detainees, the following were also sentenced to jail for the instance: two Turkish people, who received three-and-a-half years for transporting the drugs; a Colombian, who got six years in jail; and a Dutch natinal, who received seven years for serving as the gang's “logistics chief.”

A Dutch and Belgian operation reportedly joined forces to track the gang, a judge heard. The news source reported that tracking and listening devices were placed inside the consignment of bananas when it made its way through Antwerp in December of 2016. While the consignment was being transferred to a warehouse via forklift truck just days later, Dutch police caught the gang.

The news source explained that prosecutors pinned Hughes and Taylor as the operation’s “masterminds.”

Those involved in the operation are believed to have visited Colombia’s Medellín, the city that housed Pablo Escobar’s infamous headquarters.

How will this jail-time impact the drug smuggling industry’s efforts to tap into the produce industry? AndNowUKnow will continue to report.