drug dealer realised his £7.2million stash had disappeared. Christian Tachev, 25, claimed that he worked as a personal trainer and sold vapes, but in truth he worked as a courier in a “sophisticated” drugs operation in Australia.
He was responsible for moving around bags of money and drugs but unbeknownst to him, the police had been watching him for some time.
As part of this operations, cops knew of the location where Tachev had buried a huge amount of drugs – with a street value between £5.7m (AU $9.9m) and £7.2m (AU $12.4m).
The officers proceeded to dig up the narcotics and set up a surveillance camera to catch the drug smuggler in the act. On March 19 last year, the 25-year-old went to the scene where he had buried his stash and was filmed digging for 25 minutes, only to find his illegal goods were no longer there.
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