Panning for gold: Cleaners discover 280 ingots worth £1.17million inside plane's toilet

In the last eight months, more than 100 hauls of gold weighing around 300kg and other precious items have been seized at the airport.

Last month thieves took £1million worth of gold bars from an Air France plane.

The solid gold ingots were part of a multi-million pound cargo of nine cases containing 300 kilograms of gold.

Detectives said that 44 kilos of gold ingots were taken from a plane travelling from the French capital to Zurich.

Just two weeks before £170million worth of pure cocaine was found being shipped from South America to Paris on board another Air France aircraft.

The record-breaking 1.3 tonne haul was packed into 30 separate suitcases and all originated in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.

All had been registered to passengers who did not exist and were not registered on the flight.

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