Britain: Gang Trafficking Drugs Of Over 2.5 Billion Euros – 32 Years Sentence to 18 Members

A sentence of up to 32 years was imposed by its authorities on 18 members who were smuggling drugs across the country. This is even the biggest trafficking case Britain has ever seen. “This is the biggest conspiracy ever identified in terms of drugs in Britain,” the National Criminality Agency (NCA) said about criminal organisation. As revealed by the investigation, the members of the organization brought to Britain heroin, cocaine and cannabis from the Netherlands and sold it across the country, from 2015 to 2018. To cover their tracks they hid the drugs in loads of goods with intense odor, such as onions, garlic, or ginger. The NCAA and Dutch police jointly began the investigations in 2018 resulting in 18 members of the organization being admitted to 2 trials, one of which lasted 23 months (record for England) and the second 9 months. Manchester Court today lifted the disclosure ban on the case, after the second trial was completed. Judge Paul Lowton referred to “the trafficking of drugs on an unprecedented international scale to date”, as the “good” was worth at least EUR 2.41 billion – possibly even EUR 8.4 billion. The organization’s “brain”, 59-year-old Paul Green, was sentenced to 32-year imprisonment. Green and his associates founded many companies – ghosts in the Netherlands and England, using fake or stolen identities. “The criminal organization bought so many onions – 40 to 50 tons weekly – that it could no longer get rid of them and often sent them back to Europe, to be loaded again,” the NCAA said. The team’s “accounter”, 53-year-old Stephen Martin who had undertaken to open bank accounts, was sentenced to 28-year imprisonment. “Without such criminals, there would be no teenagers selling drugs on the street. We would have no dead in billing arrangements, nor innocent citizens killed by crossfire,” said NCAA Operations Director Rob Jones. Photo source: National Crime Agency