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Police were today assessing more than $6bn (£4.4bn) worth of suspect US bonds seized together with a hoard of drugs during a raid on a suspected Colombian drug ring operating out of Britain.
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That's
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If the bonds prove genuine, the raids will become one of the biggest hauls in criminal history.
"We went in there looking for drugs, searching for drugs - anything other than that is a bit of a bonus," an NCS spokeswoman said.
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If it weren't a Greek word, you'd think the British had
invented litotes.