Coke ring’s port plot

A man who moved $20,000 around for an overseas syndicate in an alleged Mexican cartel-linked drug smuggling plot has been jailed for three years and eight months. Angel Gavito Alverado is one of several men charged in relation to an alleged plot to get drugs, including 200kg of cocaine, into New Zealand through the Port of Tauranga. The 28-year-old was sentenced at the High Court in Rotorua after earlier pleading guilty to charges of money laundering, possession of methamphetamine for supply and conspiracy to import methamphetamine.