The find led to the unravelling of an international drug trafficking ring with links to the Albanian mafia and a £10million money-laundering racket.
A tonne of high grade cocaine bound for London was recovered when Scotland Yard detectives and the Spanish navy stopped a ship on the high seas.
The former Canadian coastguard vessel was identified after a £100,000 receipt for ship repairs was found in a waste bin during a drugs raid in Hillingdon in 2009.
Two members of the drugs ring were jailed at Kingston crown court yesterday. Anthony Briggs, 55, was given 12 months for money laundering, possession of a class A drug and possession of CS gas. Rayner Jane Rothery, 46, also received 12 months after admitting money laundering and conspiracy to pervert the court of justice.
The case comes after details were revealed yesterday of a haul of £300million of cocaine found in a pleasure boat in Southampton docks.
Scotland Yard said 14 people in Britain have now been jailed for a total of 77 years in connection with the plot. Spanish authorities arrested 10 people who are all awaiting trial in Spain.
Detectives unpicked an international network stretching from London to Spain, Albania, the Caribbean and Colombia
Detectives today revealed how they smashed a £350million cocaine smuggling plot - after spotting a receipt in a waste paper basket.
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