2 NRIs Shakti Gupta & Baldev Sahota, jailed after police seize 20 million pounds of drugs in UK
Los Angeles, May 28, 2020
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Two NRI cocaine dealers Baldev Singh Sahota, 54, was jailed for 16 years and Shakti Gupta for 18 years years after police seize £20million haul hidden in FROZEN CHICKENS.
The police Officers found 168 kg of drugs after pulling over a van on the A45 in the Midlands. A further 4kg and cutting agent was then found at a Birmingham industrial unit. The cocaine was hidden amongst pallets of frozen food when they pulled over a van on the A45 in the Midlands in December.
The two NRIs have been jailed over a £20 million drugs bust and it is one of the biggest in UK history.
- Both NRIs pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs at Birmingham Crown Court, where Sahota was jailed for 16 years and Gupta for 18 years.
- Lawyers for Gupta said: "Gupta had been trained as a gas engineer and stored plumbing equipment at the unit, but when his business got into difficulties last year, he agreed to allow it to be used for drugs, the site reports."
- Representatives for Sahota said his only contact with customers was making deliveries and insisted he was 'not into this to make himself rich', it added.
- Neil Ballard, Detective Superintendent from the Met's Specialist Crime Command, said: 'This operation has resulted in one of the largest land seizures of cocaine within the UK, ever. It is an extremely significant amount of Class A drugs that indicates the scale of this organised drug supply, which the Met has successfully dismantled."
