UK Jails 21 Gang Members For 167 Years Over Cocaine Importation

A gang of 21 behind the importation of over £165 million worth of cocaine into the UK have been jailed for a total of 167 years.

According to Mail Online, the group was a complex network of well-rehearsed individuals shifting illegal drugs on an ‘industrial scale’. Leading members of the gang would travel out to Dubai to meet their cocaine contact who they bragged was on a ‘mill a week.’ 

But their smooth-running operation fell apart when European Police broke into the Encrochat phone system, an encoded system used by criminals, giving British police evidence to arrest the gang. 

An investigation by the East Midlands Special Operations Unit found the gang was being led by Paldip Mahngar, 45, out of his small terraced house in Derby.

Mahngar was using an encrypted phone with the Encrochat system to order numerous kilograms of cocaine from contacts in Dubai. While Jaswant Kajla was then responsible for distributing the drugs across the country.

Kajla, 41, of Coventry, organised the logistics of moving the drugs and arranged for the gang’s earnings to be collected. He ensured that the distributors were all rehearsed, acting as couriers to distribute their illicit drugs to buyers.

The gang’s accountant, Manraj Johal, 32, dealt with the collected money, keeping spreadsheets logging the gang’s financial situation.

Johal, of Luton, then used another encrypted phone to relay his activity to his superiors.

Over the 408-day spree, the gang is estimated to have made a staggering £165,208,208 – at one point, they were thought to be raking in as much as £400,000 a day through their ‘offices’ in Derby and Luton.

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