لوٹن نمائندہ پوٹھوار ڈاٹ کوم۔۔۔پاکستان سے پوسٹ کے ذریعے اڑھائی ملین پونڈز کی ہیروئن سمگل کیس میں تین افراد کو پیناتالیس سال جیل کی سزا سنا دی گئی۔ ان تینوں کا تعلق برمنگھم اور لوٹن سے ہے۔تفصیلات کے مطابق تین پاکستانی نژاد افراد نے پوسٹ کے ذریعے اڑھائی ملین پونڈز کی ڈرگز امپورٹ کیں جس میں تیرہ پیکٹس شامل تھے ان کا مجموعی وزن پانچ کلو تھا ۔ بارڈر فورس نے یہ پانچ کلو پکڑ لیے اور ان کا اندازہ ہے کہ اس گروپ کی سابقہ کارکردگی کو مد نظر رکھتے ہوئے مزید چودہ کلو ڈرگز کے پارسل ابھی تاحالپاکستان سے آنے تھے۔
نیشنل کرائم ایجنسی نے سینتیس سالہ سلطان محمود بٹ، چونتیس سالہ رضوان احمد اور چھیالیس سالہ ڈینیس سے پوچھ گچھ کے ذریعے مذکورہ ہیروئن ریکور کی۔سلطان محمود بٹ اس گروپ کا لیڈر تھا۔ جبکہ نبیل صغیر مڈل مین کا کردار ادا کرتا تھا۔ اور ڈرگز کی مختلف پتوں پر ڈیلیوری کا کام کیا کرتا تھا۔
Three members of an organised crime group have been sentenced to a total of 45 years for smuggling a minimum of £2.49 million worth of heroin from Pakistan into the UK via the post.
The trio – from Luton and Birmingham – imported drugs through UK airports concealed within packages of boxing gloves, equine dentistry tools, and motorcycle gloves.
Thirteen packages were recovered containing a total of five kilos of high purity heroin, with the NCA investigation team estimating a further 14 kilos were imported based on records showing previous parcels linked to the crime group.
The NCA began investigating Sultan Mahmood Butt, aged 37, Nibeel Saghir, aged 34, Rizwan Ahmed, aged 34, who are all relatives from Pakistan now living in the UK, and Denise Ellis, aged 46, from Birmingham, after Border Force officers at Stansted Airport seized almost three kilos of heroin.
NCA officers identified that Luton-based Butt was the head of the crime group and responsible for organising the importations from Pakistan.Saghir was the middleman who ensured the onward delivery of the drugs to various addresses in Luton and Birmingham, with assistance from Ahmed and Ellis. Ahmed and Ellis were arrested in 2015 after a number of the intercepted packages were found to be destined for their home addresses.
The packages were seized at Stansted, East Midlands and Heathrow airports, plus a parcel delivery depot in Tamworth.
Butt’s phone number was linked to the packages and he was also arrested. He had sent a WhatsApp message of a photo detailing the address for an impending importation that was subsequently intercepted at Heathrow.
Saghir was arrested in January 2016 after the analysis of phone records proved his involvement in the conspiracy.
During one 13-minute period, on the date of an attempted drugs delivery, there were twelve calls between Butt and Saghir.
The NCA investigation proved that all four individuals involved in the operation were in contact with each other at key times around each importation.
(On 10th August 2019 )at Birmingham Crown Court, Butt, Saghir, Ahmed were jailed for 20, 15, and 10 years respectively. Ellis’ sentencing has been delayed. Matt Horne, Deputy Director for Investigations at the NCA, said, “Drug trafficking doesn’t always happen in one big shipment. This group attempted to smuggle over £2.49 million worth of heroin little and often through the post, wrongly thinking they could avoid detection.
