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Friday October 11, 2019
No. 915
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BILLION POUND BUST Dewsbury men charged in UK’s biggest-ever drugs conspiracy
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By Staff Reporters TWO men from Dewsbury have been charged on suspicion of smuggling drugs worth billions of pounds into the UK. The National Crime Agency found class A and B drugs hidden on lorries carrying vegetables and juice into the country from Holland, in what they have described as the UK’s “biggest-ever drugs racket”. Vojtech Dano, 38, and 34-yearold Ivan Turtak, both of Vulcan Gardens in the Flatts area of Dewsbury, are charged with four counts of conspiracy to import class A drugs and four counts of conspiracy to import class B drugs. A total of 13 suspected members of the international crime group have been charged following dawn raids on Tuesday in Dewsbury, Leeds, Manchester, Stockport, St Helens, Warrington, Bolton and London. They are being held for allegedly importing cocaine, heroin and cannabis into the UK and were due to appear at Manchester Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Thursday). Five other men were in court on the same charges as the Dewsbury men. They are Paul Green, 54, of Eccleston in St Helens; Sohail Qureshi, 59,
A ‘cover’ load for drugs which were seized by the National Crime Agency
Some of the narcotics found as part of the international investigation White City in London; Mohammed Ovais, 41, of Burnage in Manchester; Ghazanfar Mahmood, 48, of
Bolton; and Ifthikar Hussain, 46, of Leeds.
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