An extensive international crackdown led by the UK’s National Crime Agency has dismantled a Russian money laundering network linked to drug trafficking organizations such as the Kinahan Organised Crime Group. Operation Destabilise resulted in over 80 arrests and the seizure…
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed a significant money laundering operation linking UK drug gangs to a Russian-speaking criminal network. This unprecedented scheme allowed gangs to convert dirty cash into untraceable cryptocurrency during the pandemic lockdown. With 84 arrests…
A gang has been sentenced for attempting to smuggle approximately £200 million worth of cocaine concealed in banana crates from Colombia. The operation was intercepted by undercover officers at Portsmouth Port in February 2021. Key members Petko Zhutev, Gjergji Diko,…
Eighteen members of a criminal organization have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 32 years in the largest drug trafficking case recorded in the UK, according to police. The group imported heroin, cocaine, and cannabis from the Netherlands…
Two men, Dilshad Shamo and Ali Khdir, were caught running a people smuggling operation in Wales, providing migrants from the Middle East with video reviews of their journeys, akin to Tripadvisor. Over two years, they brought approximately 100 migrants to…
Ali Khdir and Dilshad Shamo, two people smugglers based in Caerphilly, Wales, have pleaded guilty to smuggling around 100 migrants per week from the Middle East to Europe. They operated a service likened to ‘Tripadvisor,’ where migrants rated their journeys…
