Three men have been arrested after police seized a stash of heroin worth almost £10 million in north London.
The haul was discovered by detectives who were tracking a Mercedes car as it stopped in Tarling Road, Finchley, yesterday.
Scotland Yard said the male driver removed two black holdalls from his vehicle and put them in a white van he had met along with an Audi car.
Officers stepped in and arrested three men, aged 48, 33 and 36, who are alleged to have been involved in the exchange. All remain in custody.
The holdalls were found to contain around 40 kilos of heroin, while another two kilos of the Class A drug and £10,000 in cash was uncovered following a subsequent search of an address in north London.
In total, the street value of the heroin seized would be around £9.5 million, Scotland Yard said.
A police investigation is still under way, the force added.