article_snippet: Had Drug smugglers: Daniel Valdes Jaramillo, 24, and Leonel Hernandez-Gonzalez,
article_snippet: Grisales-Cuervo codenamed cocaine 'panela' - an unprocessed brown sugar popular in Colombia and often sold in small blocks, it was said.
article_snippet: The gang also stashed packs of cocaine in rolls of paper to be shipped into Colombia in an operation that had been going on for 'years'.
article_snippet: Former butcher Grisales-Cuervo and fellow Colombian Hernandez-Gonzalez was convicted by a jury of importing the class A drug between January and July last year.
article_snippet: On the evidence in the case suggests the defendants were very much performing to the direction of others, not masterminding the scheme but taking a key part in a scheme masterminded by others, very probably in Colombia. '
article_snippet: In March 2014 they observed Hernandez-Gonzales handing £300,000 to a taxi driver who was later acquitted for Hernandez-Gonzales involvement, which was clearly proceeds from the operation. '
article_snippet: Hernandez-Gonzalez was the subject to police observation, and a probe was put in Grisales-Cuervo's car revealing the extent of Hernandez-Gonzalez role in the conspiracy with the bananas. '
article_snippet: Hernandez-Gonzales organised the distribution networks in UK while Grisales-Cuervo's travelled out to Colombia in June to visit the cocaine factory and meet the bosses of the cartel face to face.