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The Bus Driver: Britain's Cocaine King

How a London bus driver was secretly a drug kingpin

Growing up poor in a cocaine-producing region of Colombia, Jesus Ruiz Henao had one ambition – to be rich. And when he moved to London in the 1980s, he achieved his dream by building a billion-pound cocaine empire, with the help of Colombian drug cartels, while working as a bus driver. Now, Ruiz Henao’s extraordinary story is being told in Discovery+’s two-part documentary The Bus Driver: Britain’s Cocaine King. ‘A poor Columbian refugee becomes the biggest drug trafficker in British history and...

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