From DAILY MAIL
Refugee poster boy unmasked as drugs gang boss behind plot to flood the country that gave him refuge with £1.2m of cocaine
- Arben Dumani was 10 when he escaped worn-torn Kosovo with his family
- He was interviewed by the media about starting a new life in Glasgow
- But 13 years on, it has emerged he is the boss of a drugs smuggling gang
- Dumani, now 23, was jailed for 12 years at the Glasgow High Court
- Gang members Albert Memia, Fabion Ponari, and Gjeorgj Pjetri, also jailed
|
Jailed: Kosovan refugee Arben Dumani, 23, became
the boss of a gang plotting to smuggle drugs into the UK - just 13
years after being granted refuge to live in the country
But yesterday, 13 years after arriving, child refugee poster boy Arben Dumani was unmasked as the boss of a drugs gang behind a plot to flood the country that gave him refuge with £1.2m of cocaine.
Unrepentant Dumani stood in the dock as prosecutors described a drug dealing enterprise involving him and with his three henchmen as on a ‘virtually industrial scale’.
During a dawn raid on a safe house in Glasgow last year, officers seized over 2kg of the Class A drug and substances and equipment used to bulk out the pure drugs.
The mob helped bring about their own downfall by taking mobile phone photos of themselves snorting cocaine laid out to spell their names.
The four – all originally from Eastern Europe – were sentenced to a total of 30 years and six months at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday.
Detective Chief Superintendent Athol Aitken said: ‘This serious organised crime group, led by Arben Dumani, was involved in the importation of cocaine with an estimated street value of £1.2million.
‘This was a significant quantity of drugs that would have caused untold harm to Scottish communities and I welcome the court result which will ensure the individuals involved are held accountable for their crimes.’
Dumani was just 10 when he and his relatives escaped the horrors of their Kosovan homeland for a new life in Glasgow.
No comments:
Post a Comment