A German truck driver has been jailed for 19 years after attempting to bring almost half a tonne of cocaine into the UK hidden in tyres. Kawus Rafiei, 57, originally from Shiraz in Iran, was sentenced last Friday after being found guilty of attempting to import Class A drugs following … Read more »
Lorry driver and 16 migrants arrested in NCA operation targeting organised immigration crime
A Turkish lorry driver has been arrested on suspicion of people smuggling offences on a motorway slip road, as part of a National Crime Agency investigation. The 36-year-old was detained after his vehicle was stopped at the M25’s junction with the A3 at around 3.30pm today (Sunday 21 March). Sixteen… Read more »
£44m of MDMA shipped to Australia hidden in excavator
Three men have been arrested in London and two in Western Sydney following the seizure of 450 kilos of MDMA hidden within an excavator that was shipped into the Port of Brisbane from the UK earlier last year. A joint investigation was launched by the National Crime Agency and Australian… Read more »
Milk delivery contractor prosecuted for dangerous vans
Manchester Dairy Limited has been prosecuted by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) at Coventry Magistrates Court on the 9th of December 2020 for deliberately overloading its vans. The company committed the offences, which they pleaded guilty to, while delivering Freshways milk. The company was using 3.5 tonne vans… Read more »
Mansel Davies HGV operator licence revoked and directors disqualified
Traffic Commissioner said that the company was “irredeemably tainted” by its falsification of maintenance records and deserved to go out of business. Pembrokeshire operator Mansel Davies & Son Ltd has had its licence revoked at a public inquiry after a director ordered a junior member of staff to create false… Read more »
Lorry driver charged with attempting to smuggle migrants including alleged child sex offender
A Romanian lorry driver has been charged with attempting to smuggle migrants – including a man suspected of child sex offences – out of the UK on two separate occasions. 48-year-old Sebastian Gabriel Podar was arrested as part of a National Crime Agency operation at the port of Dover in the… Read more »
Cocaine worth £100m found hidden in banana pulp shipment at London Gateway
Cocaine worth an estimate of £100 million has been discovered, concealed in a shipment of banana pulp, as stated by the Home Office. The drugs were found during an inspection at the London Gateway depot in Essex in November, hidden in a shipping container docked at the port. Authorities discovered… Read more »
Convicted – corrupt haulier and courier who attempted to smuggle cannabis from UK to Ireland
A corrupt truck driver from Northern Ireland and a courier from west London have been convicted for attempting to smuggle cannabis from the UK to Ireland. The criminal conspiracy was uncovered after National Crime Agency officers tracked down CCTV of the pair arranging a drugs handover. Louis McPhillips, 27, from… Read more »
Kent man jailed for involvement in concealing cocaine in customised exhaust pipes
A 57-year-old man has been jailed for a conspiracy to smuggle cocaine worth nearly £3 million concealed in customised exhaust pipes which the NCA believe was destined for Northern Ireland. Jason Bunce, from Kingswood, Kent, was sentenced to 15 years at Maidstone Crown Court on 22 October for organising the… Read more »
Four men charged for people smuggling offences
Four men have now been charged as part of a National Crime Agency investigation targeting people smugglers. Update: 18 October 2020 Two Albanian brothers, Arben Cakici, 48, and Astrit Cakici, 37, from Barking and Newham, who were living illegally in the UK, have been charged with facilitating illegal entry into… Read more »
