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UK Drug Smuggling Gang Sentenced To Over 80 Years For Cocaine Transport In Chicken Pallets‌ ‌

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August 27, 2024 at 4:40 pm
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<p>Officers in Birmingham stopped the van the pair were traveling in as it came back from docks in Essex. WEST MIDLANDS POLICE VIA SWNS.</p>
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<p>WEST MIDLANDS, England — A drug smuggling gang has been jailed for a total of more than 80 years after being found to have transported cocaine across the country – in pallets of raw chicken.</p>
<p>The ten-strong gang used a fleet of vans with hidden compartments to ferry millions of pounds worth of drugs around the UK, police said.</p>
<p>Illegal cash was also recovered stashed in vehicle tires and industrial machinery from vans disguised as mechanical service vehicles.</p>
<p>West Midlands Police said they seized 400kg of cocaine as well as £1.6m in cash after investigators smashed the supply chain.</p>
<p>They also recovered 225kg of cocaine destined for Australia stored at a warehouse in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.</p>
<p>The gang communicated using the Encrochat platform, an encrypted messaging app that criminals believed couldn’t be accessed by law enforcers.</p>
<p>It was shut down as part of a huge UK-wide operation and the messages discussed the logistics, management, and delivery of up to a ton of cocaine.</p>
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West Midlands Police said they seized 400kg of cocaine as well as £1.6m in cash after investigators smashed the supply chain. KARYNA PANCHENKO VIA PEXELS.

The drug smugglers also had large amounts of criminal cash, believed to be over £10m, being collected or delivered nationally.

Maninder Dosanjh, 39, and Amandeep Rishi, 42, were arrested as police seized over 150kg of cocaine, hidden in frozen chicken produce.

Officers in Birmingham stopped the van the pair were traveling in as it came back from docks in Essex.

Other gang members were arrested after Mohammed Usman collected wheels and tires in the West Midlands before driving to London where they were passed to Sayed Hasheman in a residential street.

When the tyres were cut open they were found to contain just short of £500k in cash.

On another occasion, just over £1 million cash was recovered from a concealed compartment of an air compressor in another of the gang’s vans which was stopped by officers.

Ten men, who lived in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Walsall, South Staffordshire, and London, were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on August 20.

They all pleaded guilty to offenses between March 30, 2020, and August 13, 2020.

Dosanjh was jailed for over 16 years and Rishi for over 11 years for their leading role in conspiring to supply class A drugs and money laundering.

Maninder Dosanjh, 39, and Amandeep Rishi, 42, were arrested as police seized over 150kg of cocaine, hidden in frozen chicken produce. WEST MIDLANDS POLICE VIA SWNS. 

Mohammad Usman, 29, Rizwan Ali, 34, and Kamran Hussain, 34 were also jailed for between seven and nine years, for their significant roles in conspiracy and money laundering.

Peter Masih, 44, Mandeep Singh, 42, and Mithab Hussain, 31, who played lesser roles were jailed for between seven and eight years.

Ashtiaq Ahmed, 45 and Sayeed Hashemyan, 38, got over two years for money laundering.

Det Chf Insp Pete Cooke said: “This far-reaching investigation covered the importation, exportation, and wholesale national supply of cocaine and money laundering.

“We were able to expose the gangs’ activities which were both sophisticated and on a commercial scale, with them using a network of highly trusted individuals and a fleet of vehicles with hidden compartments.

“We believe they were responsible for importing hundreds of kilos of cocaine, estimated to be over a tonne resulting in them making huge sums of cash, thought to be over £10m.

“But all this enterprise was illegal and was putting large quantities of drugs, which we know destroy many lives and blight many communities, onto streets both here in the UK and overseas.”

     

     

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