Border Force officers who used their “experience and nous” to cut open industrial equipment after it arrived at a British port discovered cocaine worth £72 million stashed inside. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementBut the Daily Mail says their gamble paid off when they uncovered an elaborate ruse by traffickers. Regional director Phillip Holiday added: “Border Force officers identified a number of anomalies with the generators, which put in to question their legitimacy and suggested they had been tampered with. “Due to officers’ expert skills, specialist advice and supportive intelligence we felt confident that the generators would contain cocaine. Drug shipments have previously been discovered in solar water heaters from Mexico and inside crane equipment.