All four men have been jailed
This was the moment the net closed in on a multi-million pound drug smuggling gang. Four men, including a high-level drug dealer from Trafford, were arrested by National Crime Agency investigators as they unloaded a shipping container which arrived in the UK from Ecuador.
READ MORE: Family's heart-breaking tribute to Cameron Brooksbank after his story appears in BBC documentary The Detectives A few days later after the drugs had been removed, Robert Ball contacted the shipping line to ask them to release four containers, including the one he thought contained the cocaine. The NCA says the 59-year-old, from Altrincham, was later found to be acting on behalf of an Albanian organised crime group.
The pair gave instructions to Kaviani and Ibra at the storage yard, who used a forklift truck to get on top of the container. As they ripped open the container and started unloading packages, the NCA and police moved in to arrest them. “Removing this consignment from circulation will have been a sizeable blow to this criminal network, preventing them from generating profits that would have been invested in further criminality. We are determined to dismantle major international crime groups like this one from top to bottom.”
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