They had plans to 'expand business' even further with importation routes
These are the faces of EncroChat drug gang members said to be among the 'highest firearm traffickers ever encountered by UK law enforcement'. They face hefty prison sentences for their crimes.
Some members of the gang kept ledgers in the 'notes' section of their encrypted phones, which indicated the scale and value of the racket. Mr Elvidge KC added: "One note recovered from an encrypted device used by Mohammed Malik shows that between January 13 and May 16 2020, payments for the supply of 739 kilos of cocaine - nearly three quarters of a tonne - to a large customer base.
He was stopped by police in West Yorkshire that afternoon, and officers found a gun and a number of bullets. "The gun was a working semi-automatic black Slovakian-made Grand Power 9mm handgun - exactly the type of gun stocked, marketed and sold by these defendants," Mr Elvidge KC said. Police later recovered two Škorpion sub-machine pistols; two self-loading pistols; two magazines containing ammunition; 12 large bags of frozen amphetamine; and a suitcase containing over £600,000 in cash.
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