I'm genuinely surprised that someone would make a YouTube video about this man. His organization is said to be next level. There's plenty of those names around living in pockets of London, Essex and Kent at the moment. None of their criminal dealings can be proven.
True TKJ, Scotland Yard had been infiltrated by criminal groups, most notably the infamous Adams Familiy in England and a gang led by the mobster David Hunt.
The covert investigation of Operation Tiberius found that many detectives had been 'bribed' and provided access to police databases and even states that criminals were watching 'live' with ongoing investigations.
When it comes to the UK, many always talk about the immigrant ethnic groups.
But there still many British organised crime gangs that have been active for many years.
The British press are always going to play up the "foreign crime threat" hysteria. The vast majority of organized crime in the UK still concerns homegrown British criminal networks of English/Scottish/Irish background. Organized crime in Liverpool, Glasgow, Nottingham, Manchester and Newcastle consists of 95% homegrown groups. And there are still a lot of homegrown groups active in Essex and Kent (whose operations extend into North, East and South London) as well as the Solihull/Birmingham area. All of these have international operations.
Regarding "foreign" organized crime in the UK the noteworthy ones at the moment are Albanian cocaine and hashish trafficking groups that are mostly active in the London and Birmingham area, the Turkish/Kurdish heroin trafficking groups in North London, Pakistani (mostly several Mirpuri and Pashtun families) heroin trafficking groups in Bradford, Birmingham, Oldham, Middlesbrough and Luton, Vietnamese marihuana trafficking groups in London, Lithuanian arms and contraband tobacco smuggling groups in London, Somali drug gangs in South London, Jamaican gang activity in London, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester (though Jamaican gang activity isn't as endemic as it once has been), Tamil gangs in West London (also not as endemic as it once has been), Traveller families mostly in the Manchester area and some Maltese involvement in underground pornography and prostitution in London (though most London Maltese are nowadays regarded as British).
Two weeks on from the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, Merseyside Police say they are taking a relentless approach to their crackdown on serious organised crime in the region.
Their operation, codenamed Operation Miller, has seen hundreds of arrests as well as the execution of warrants, seizure of vehicles and stop searches.
The move comes following a series of murders in the region, including the death of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was gunned down in her Dovecot home.
Are there 2 families in Edinburgh? I've wondered where did the Thompson family later commit to, the Daniels or Lyons? Only 2 family's in Glasgow am I right?
Are there 2 families in Edinburgh? I've wondered where did the Thompson family later commit to, the Daniels or Lyons? Only 2 family's in Glasgow am I right?
As far as I know there are at least 5 well organised OC gangs operating in Glasgow
Funny how throughout the years the Maltese had a more noteworthy presence in the London underworld than Italians. The Sabini mob was done by the early 40's. Maltese gangsters were noticeably operating in London from the 1940's well into the early 2000's. Soho has been thoroughly cleaned up, but traces of Maltese activity still exist under the radar. Not as huge as it once was, but it's still there...or so I've been told.
Are there 2 families in Edinburgh? I've wondered where did the Thompson family later commit to, the Daniels or Lyons? Only 2 family's in Glasgow am I right?
There's drug trafficking in Edinburgh as there's in any major city, but it isn't really a hotspot for organized crime. Daniel and Lyons families are highly publicized because of their long running feud, but there's way way more mobs operating from Glasgow that are internationally active. Daniel and Lyons are both from North Glasgow and they're no doubt feared and have pull over there, but there's a few mobs from for instance South Glasgow that arguably have even more resources and can be regarded as big time players in the European underworld. There's also mobs operating from West and East Glasgow. We don't know the true extent of their power, but I'd wager that there's even quite a bit more than five organized crime outfits operating from Glasgow.
Funny how throughout the years the Maltese had a more noteworthy presence in the London underworld than Italians. The Sabini mob was done by the early 40's. Maltese gangsters were noticeably operating in London from the 1940's well into the early 2000's. Soho has been thoroughly cleaned up, but traces of Maltese activity still exist under the radar. Not as huge as it once was, but it's still there...or so I've been told.
Theres a huge Italian community in the UK, but there has never been a mafia presence
There's drug trafficking in Edinburgh as there's in any major city, but it isn't really a hotspot for organized crime. Daniel and Lyons families are highly publicized because of their long running feud, but there's way way more mobs operating from Glasgow that are internationally active. Daniel and Lyons are both from North Glasgow and they're no doubt feared and have pull over there, but there's a few mobs from for instance South Glasgow that arguably have even more resources and can be regarded as big time players in the European underworld. There's also mobs operating from West and East Glasgow. We don't know the true extent of their power, but I'd wager that there's even quite a bit more than five organized crime outfits operating from Glasgow.
Curiosity: are the Gillespie brothers from Glasgow? There have been quite a lot of articles about them online, they were supposedly killed in Brazil or still on the run there; they are described as being quite powerful gangsters operating on international level.
Is there any good book about those other gangs in Scotland? As you said, Daniel and Lyons are the most publicized ones, so it would be interesting to learn about the others, if there is any information available to the public.
Willie Marfeo to Henry Tameleo:
1) "You people want a loaf of bread and you throw the crumbs back. Well, fuck you. I ain't closing down."
2) "Get out of here, old man. Go tell Raymond to go shit in his hat. We're not giving you anything."
There's drug trafficking in Edinburgh as there's in any major city, but it isn't really a hotspot for organized crime. Daniel and Lyons families are highly publicized because of their long running feud, but there's way way more mobs operating from Glasgow that are internationally active. Daniel and Lyons are both from North Glasgow and they're no doubt feared and have pull over there, but there's a few mobs from for instance South Glasgow that arguably have even more resources and can be regarded as big time players in the European underworld. There's also mobs operating from West and East Glasgow. We don't know the true extent of their power, but I'd wager that there's even quite a bit more than five organized crime outfits operating from Glasgow.
Curiosity: are the Gillespie brothers from Glasgow? There have been quite a lot of articles about them online, they were supposedly killed in Brazil or still on the run there; they are described as being quite powerful gangsters operating on international level.
Is there any good book about those other gangs in Scotland? As you said, Daniel and Lyons are the most publicized ones, so it would be interesting to learn about the others, if there is any information available to the public.
Yes, the Gillespies are from Rutherglen, which is in South Glasgow. As youngsters they were foot soldiers for Stephen Docherty - who at the time was the crime boss of Rutherglen and one of the biggest gangsters in all of Glasgow - and they took over the organization after his death. Extremely dangerous men. Glasgow locals can probably provide you with more intel, but lower level drug traffickers who ran afoul of their mob got punished severely...torture, dismemberments, kneecappings, sledgehammer beatings, etc... Apparently they haven't been in contact with their associates for almost a year now. They were living in a luxury loft in Fortaleza. Some say they got into conflict with members from the local PCC chapter, others say another fellow Glasgow gangster had given the order to have them killed, another one says they had a conflict with other international drug traffickers (the Ndrangheta for instance also operates from Brazil), etc...and then there are others who say they're still under the radar and on the run hiding somewhere else. All I know is that when Brazilian gangs have you killed, you usually don't just "disappear". Most times they chop you up or set you on fire...but they don't make the effort to stuff your remains in some oil barrel or something like that. You're basically always found. As for the possibility of them being on the run; it's definitely possible. These guys are multimillionaires and they do have the resources to stay under the radar. Who knows?
There are tons of books on the Glasgow gang life, but I have to say I don't know if any of them are any good...
Funny how throughout the years the Maltese had a more noteworthy presence in the London underworld than Italians. The Sabini mob was done by the early 40's. Maltese gangsters were noticeably operating in London from the 1940's well into the early 2000's. Soho has been thoroughly cleaned up, but traces of Maltese activity still exist under the radar. Not as huge as it once was, but it's still there...or so I've been told.
The internment of Italian's during the war finished them.
James and Barry Gillespie are believed to lead Scotland's biggest and richest organized gang. Many of the Brits have a base in The Netherlands for drug deals, but Amsterdam is also a hotspot for fugitive British top criminals.
James and Barry Gillespie are believed to lead Scotland's biggest and richest organized gang. Many of the Brits have a base in The Netherlands for drug deals, but Amsterdam is also a hotspot for fugitive British top criminals.
Used to be Spain.
Where are the members of the Thompson mob, did they jump ship to the 2 family's in Glasgow or simply stop/low-level?
The average citizen is much more concerned about low-tier criminals committing crimes that most effect them (petty theft, rape, carjacking, assault, b-&-e, robbery, etc) than top-tier crime brokers that aren’t directly responsible for any of that. I know it’s short sighted but that’s a pretty common and understandable sentiment.
On top of that, London is one of the most important metros in the world so its crime gets more attention than some hick town in some outer Shire. And when it comes to the crimes listed above, individuals of “foreign” descent make up a significant slice of the offender’s pie.
In analogy with the Penose in the Netherlands and the Milieu in France, organised crime in the United Kingdom has traditionally been governed by homegrown organised criminal groups involved in a multitude of illegitimate businesses. Criminal enterprises come from a variety of different ethnic backgrounds finding their origin in the UK, the most dominant of them still being the White British groups.
The whole of the UK is said to host some 7,500 different organised criminal groups that cost the country £100 million a day in crime and lost revenues.
James and Barry Gillespie are believed to lead Scotland's biggest and richest organized gang. Many of the Brits have a base in The Netherlands for drug deals, but Amsterdam is also a hotspot for fugitive British top criminals.
Used to be Spain.
Where are the members of the Thompson mob, did they jump ship to the 2 family's in Glasgow or simply stop/low-level?
Spain is still a hotspot for them, but lately also Dubai and Turkey.
The average citizen is much more concerned about low-tier criminals committing crimes that most effect them (petty theft, rape, carjacking, assault, b-&-e, robbery, etc) than top-tier crime brokers that aren’t directly responsible for any of that. I know it’s short sighted but that’s a pretty common and understandable sentiment.
On top of that, London is one of the most important metros in the world so its crime gets more attention than some hick town in some outer Shire. And when it comes to the crimes listed above, individuals of “foreign” descent make up a significant slice of the offender’s pie.
Is it "foreign" if their motherlands belonged to the British Empire?
A man wanted by the National Crime Agency for eight years has admitted to being involved in large-scale international drug trafficking. It concerns Michael Moogan (36) from Croxteth near Liverpool, who was extradited from Dubai to British police in July . Moogan narrowly escaped in 2013 during a police raid on the notorious Rotterdam café De Ketel.
That cafe was a meeting place for people involved in international drug trafficking, it was not just open to the public but only accessible to familiar faces through a security system. Moogan turned up in a Dutch National Unit investigation. He was linked with others in plans to ship hundreds of kilograms of cocaine to the UK every month from South America.
Robert Hamilton, 71, was arrested near Manchester in the 2013 raid. He was jailed for eight years in 2014 after pleading drug charges. Another co-defendant, Robert Gerard (57) of Liverpool, turned himself in to the NCA after being on the run for three years. He also made statements and was sentenced to 14 years in prison in England in 2017.
According to the NCA, Moogan deposited $500,000 per shipment to Europe with South American suppliers, making those payments through Iraqis operating out of London. The South Americans shipped cocaine to various ports in Europe, and Moogan was responsible for hauling it out of the ports and transporting it within Europe.
Maybe they have an Irish great grandparent somewhere - which British guy in any major UK city doesn't have an Irish ancestor somewhere down the line? - but I believe the Hunts are pretty much of full English descent. However their former colleague, Jimmy M., is of half Irish descent.
Adams are of full Irish descent as are the Reilly's - like most families in that part of Northeast London. The Brindle's and the Daly's in Southeast London are both of half Irish descent.
Anyway, I think any of those guys will regard themselves as Londoners first and foremost.
Maybe they have an Irish great grandparent somewhere - which British guy in any major UK city doesn't have an Irish ancestor somewhere down the line? - but I believe the Hunts are pretty much of full English descent. However their former colleague, Jimmy M., is of half Irish descent.
Adams are of full Irish descent as are the Reilly's - like most families in that part of Northeast London. The Brindle's and the Daly's in Southeast London are both of half Irish descent.
Anyway, I think any of those guys will regard themselves as Londoners first and foremost.
True where they were born and grew up is more relevant the Hunt's grew up in canning town near the port back in the days a real slum it had London’s largest black population of any area in London.
The "Operation Tiberius" report is actually pretty damn terrifying. Eight major crime firms in Northeast and East London having contacts within Scotland Yard and Freemasonry so far reaching that they basically had free rein.
The "Operation Tiberius" report is actually pretty damn terrifying. Eight major crime firms in Northeast and East London having contacts within Scotland Yard and Freemasonry so far reaching that they basically had free rein.
Already in 1994 Lord Nolan was appointed by PM John Major to chair an Inquiry into Freemasonry within the Police.
The London-based criminal organizations that rose to power in the late 80's/90's made a LOT of money. More so than any of the old time 60's/70's gangsters before them. I'd say about eight to nine criminal organizations operating in the city were definitely some of the most powerful criminal enterprises in Europe at the time. Especially thanks to their contacts within freemasonry. Many detectives looked at these big time criminal organizations with a "better the devil you know" attitude. Afterwards many of them moved out of the city and most of the ones calling the shots turned "legit".
Plenty of groups from those circles are still active. If you take a look at huge busts in the London/Essex/Kent/Hertfordshire area every few years you'll find names showing up that used to hang around those criminal organizations back in the days. It's not the same as it was back then - a ton of activity is very much under the radar - but there's still lots and lots of organized crime going on in that region that is NOT foreign in origin (no matter how much the media tries to play up that "foreign crime threat" story). They still own car dealerships, recycling companies, etc...in London.
Clacton drug lord Jonathan Parkhill is jailed for 16 years 7th April COURT CRIME CLACTON-ON-SEA
By Dami Adewale Reporter
A DRUG lord branded the “Escobar of Essex” has been jailed for 16 years after he botched a £20 million cocaine operation by sending it to the wrong country.
Jonathan Parkhill, of Clacton, mistakenly sent 30kg of cocaine to South Africa when it was supposed to land in Germany.
Crime officers caught the 55-year-old red-handed through encrypted chat EncroChat as he hastily tried to rectify his blunder, which was seized in 2020.
Parkhill was arrested in Heathrow Airport in 2021 as he arrived home from Colombia, home of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Isleworth Crown Court heard another of his criminal efforts that year saw Parkhill and his ally Kevin Hanley, 44, smuggle more than £16million's worth of cocaine, about 500kg, to Belgium.
Hanley was later arrested at his home in Uxbridge where officers found a sawn-off shotgun.
Appearing before the court, Parkhill and Hanley admitted conspiracy to import cocaine as well as admitting a “string of other offences”.
Parkhill was sentenced to 16 years in prison while Hanley was locked up for 11-and-a-half years.
Prosecutors said: “In relation to the defendants, Mr Hanley could be described as Mr Parkhill’s subordinate in the operation.
“Conversations between the men show they were both involved in the supply of class A drugs, predominantly cocaine, around the world.
“Mr Parkhill had significant connections to Colombia, evidenced by his arrest taking place after returning from South America.”
Parkhill and Hanley had also attempted to get more than 500kg of cocaine, worth in excess of £19 million, into Belgium.
The court heard the money was due to be split between Colombian dealers and Parkhill but the deal went south.
Hanley, who was described by Parkhill as his “eyes” in Antwerp and was responsible for handling the deal, was savagely beaten for bungling it.
Recorder Andrew Campbell-Tiech said: “On the point of view of the defendants, both importations failed.”
The operation which led to the pair’s capture was led by the National Crime Agency alongside overseas partners.
David Hunt and his group are supposedly quite untouchable still after all these years, even after the leaked exposé about their connections to rogue cops, elected officials and other élites.
The Long Fella has gone legit. As have most of the families named in the Operation Tiberius report - which includes a ton of names from the London professional boxing scene. However, a lot of guys that associated with these families - especially ones from the East End and Essex area - still show up in huge busts. Jonathan Parkhill is an example, but you've also had Michael Read and Mark Gooch, Greg Spiers, Richard Wakeling, Chris Michaelides, Danny Sharland, etc...showing up in the last two years. It's hard to say who's pulling the strings in the background, but you have at least a few of these busts every year so there's a ton out there we don't know about.
The thing is that UK reports on crime are and have always been incredibly sensationalist. In the 90's and the early 2000's their main focus was on the Jamaicans and the Turks/Kurds making it out like all of the crime in London was being committed by them, which was a crock of shit. The Kurds stuck to their own neighborhoods in North London and were mostly focused on heroin importation and extortion in their own community. The Yardies on the other hand ran successful drug-dealing networks, but were seldom involved in high level importation and other rackets. Nowadays the Jamaicans and the Kurds are old news and they've shifted their focus to Albanians (first and foremost), Somalis, Vietnamese and Lithuanians. Albanians for the most part run successful drug-dealing networks, grow houses as well as prostitution, Somalis also run drug-dealing networks, Vietnamese operate grow houses and Lithuanians are involved in gunrunning for the most part. Again all of them stick to their own rackets and again it's a crock they would be responsible for 99% of the crime.
A lot of the busts that show millions of pounds worth of narcotics getting smuggled through the ports involve local villains. Local struggling businessmen are not taking out loans from foreign criminals. As hard as it may seem to believe there are still lorry hijacks happening and they don't involve foreign criminals. There's even a lot of people smuggling networks that involve British and Irish gangsters.
North Kensington in London? A lot has changed: costs millions to live there. Even for an ex council flat.
Kensington in Liverpool is a very different story however haha
I agree like many parts in London big money has changed it, but while one of the most expensive properties in the UK. Kensington and Chelsea rank the 7th highest crime borough in London.
It now became known that Dutch drug lord Johnny Gerrard Kock was found dead in his cell at HMP Berwyn in Wales on August 16, 2021. The 75-year-old K., who served a quarter of a century in prison and narrowly escaped prosecution twice in the past, 'flooded' the streets of Liverpool with cocaine and was regarded as one of the UK's biggest drug traffickers ever. The Antiques dealer who imported up to £1bn of cocaine to the UK died seven years into his 25-year sentence.
Funny they can't break in then asking him to open the door HAHA.
The English mob is a joke right now mainly because many muslim gangsters from Kosovo already arrived in their country and are causing havoc. I mean, even on the Winston Churchill monument in London, they placed an Albanian flag and named him as "Winston Cherchilli" lol lol lol like he was their guy because of the name "Albion" which is an alternative name for Great Britain lol. Those guys are obviously confused lol But what goes around, comes around since in 2000/2001 England backed those same fellas in Kosovo against the Serbs, and now the "boomerang" came back lol
Mongol General: Conan, what is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Funny they can't break in then asking him to open the door HAHA.
The English mob is a joke right now mainly because many muslim gangsters from Kosovo already arrived in their country and are causing havoc. I mean, even on the Winston Churchill monument in London, they placed an Albanian flag and named him as "Winston Cherchilli" lol lol lol like he was their guy because of the name "Albion" which is an alternative name for Great Britain lol. Those guys are obviously confused lol But what goes around, comes around since in 2000/2001 England backed those same fellas in Kosovo against the Serbs, and now the "boomerang" came back lol
It's because loads of Albanians have been arriving by boat pretending to be asylum seakers, most are low level drug dealers at best.
Gangland villain's life of crime from 'real life Scarface' to 'supergrass' In 1995, John Haase was secretly considered a "supergrass" by police and Customs officials
'Tony the Tiger' was a boxing star before he was gunned down by masked shooter The ECHO has revisited the case of Anthony 'Tony the Tiger' Sinnott as part of its unsolved crime series
Spanish police say they have re-arrested British criminal Brian Charrington on suspicion of running a major cocaine network. According to the police, he imported large quantities of cocaine and distributed them along the coast from Barcelona to Valencia. The Dutch police also took part in the investigation. Charrington had also been arrested and tried in 2018.
Brian Charrington from Northeast England (1956) has a criminal history of more than thirty years. He became known as “Wikipedia Narco” because he probably painstakingly corrected and updated his Wikipedia page himself.
He was once an associate of the English gangster Curtis Warren, who spent a considerable amount of time in the Netherlands in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught. In 2018, Charrington was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Spain for cocaine trafficking.
After that verdict, he had been free for some time.
Suriname The new suspicion concerns, among other things, a shipment of 1,165 kilos of cocaine that was seized on a sailing boat that sailed from Suriname to Valencia and was intercepted near the Canary Islands. Police foiled a second attempt to ship a ton of cocaine by sailboat.
A total of 31 arrests and 23 searches were made, with assets worth ten million euros seized.
After the operational work, 1,165 kilos of cocaine were seized, hidden in the boats. During the course of the investigation, more than 300 surveillance operations were conducted and more than 100 telephone lines were intercepted.
Shotgun Upon his arrest, Charrington confronted officers with a shotgun, but ultimately surrendered without violence.
Among the assets seized in the searches are three boats worth 4,200,000 euros, 44 cars, 40 expensive watches, 60 works of art, 54 mobile phones, a virtual cryptocurrency wallet and three guns.
British do you know anything about Edinburgh OC and second question did the Thompson family jump ship to the Daniels or Lyons ... did Paul Ferris really retire?
British do you know anything about Edinburgh OC and second question did the Thompson family jump ship to the Daniels or Lyons ... did Paul Ferris really retire?
Billy, the youngest son of Arthur 'Godfather' Thompson was found dead in 2017 . Glasgow is interesting also with Celtic and Rangers, I believe the Lyons are Celtic fans.
British do you know anything about Edinburgh OC and second question did the Thompson family jump ship to the Daniels or Lyons ... did Paul Ferris really retire?
Billy, the youngest son of Arthur 'Godfather' Thompson was found dead in 2017 . Glasgow is interesting also with Celtic and Rangers, I believe the Lyons are Celtic fans.
Always been interesting that the great divide in Glasgow has never really been much of a factor when it came to OC with guys from both sides working together.
When you do some digging around on the internet you'll find some stories from people who were around when John Palmer was at the height of his power. His Tenerife exploits are legendary - I remember I read someone stating that Palmer practically owned that island back in the 90's lmao. He made way for quite a few notorious firms based in East/Southeast London, Essex and Kent to operate rackets in Tenerife. He had an issue with a certain Hezbollah-connected Lebanese clan after one of his roided up coked up henchmen blinded one of the Lebanese. The Lebanese flew in a small army of family members, but after a few fights they got chased off. Later on he allegedly fucked over a Russian gang as well who cooperated with him on one of his timeshare scams.
Between London firms, a Hezbollah-linked clan, Russian gangsters and others there must've been at least a hundred people that had good reason to take him out.
Speaking about Spain, I bought some hash at the beach, very good quality man, I sat on the balcony out my nut. I was told the Russians control the coke in Spain, well at least one city in Spain.
What rackets do OC control beside drugs? Loan sharking, murder contract, protection rackets?
Speaking about Spain, I bought some hash at the beach, very good quality man, I sat on the balcony out my nut. I was told the Russians control the coke in Spain, well at least one city in Spain.
What rackets do OC control beside drugs? Loan sharking, murder contract, protection rackets?
Tons of Russians in Marbella and Alicante. Not just Russians though. All over the Costa del Sol, the islands and other parts of Spain there's tons of hoods running around from any place in Europe with a substantial underworld. There's Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Lithuanians along with Italians, Albanians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Moroccans from Belgium and the Netherlands, Dutch, British (lots and lots from places like Liverpool, Essex, London, Nottingham, Glasgow...), Irish (tons of guys from Dublin), Lebanese, Turks, Turkish Kurds, Corsicans and Algerians from France, Somalis from Sweden, Arabs and Assyrians from Germany and Sweden, Israelis, Greeks, Antilleans from the Netherlands, Nigerians, Chinese, outlaw motorcycle club members from Denmark, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands...as well as Colombians, Mexicans, Brazilians, Central Americans, Venezuelans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans...and ALL of these backgrounds have people running around in Spain that are up to shady shit. Mainly a lot of money laundering, but there's a lot of international drug trafficking going on (mainly cocaine, hash/marijuana and party drugs), hits take place, car theft rings, scams (for instance timeshare scams are notorious and some London firms were huge in this racket in Tenerife years ago)...you name it...
The Spanish locals are fed up, but there's little they can do at the moment and there's no use picking fights you won't win...
Speaking about Spain, I bought some hash at the beach, very good quality man, I sat on the balcony out my nut. I was told the Russians control the coke in Spain, well at least one city in Spain.
What rackets do OC control beside drugs? Loan sharking, murder contract, protection rackets?
Tons of Russians in Marbella and Alicante. Not just Russians though. All over the Costa del Sol, the islands and other parts of Spain there's tons of hoods running around from any place in Europe with a substantial underworld. There's Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Lithuanians along with Italians, Albanians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Moroccans from Belgium and the Netherlands, Dutch, British (lots and lots from places like Liverpool, Essex, London, Nottingham, Glasgow...), Irish (tons of guys from Dublin), Lebanese, Turks, Turkish Kurds, Corsicans and Algerians from France, Somalis from Sweden, Arabs and Assyrians from Germany and Sweden, Israelis, Greeks, Antilleans from the Netherlands, Nigerians, Chinese, outlaw motorcycle club members from Denmark, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands...as well as Colombians, Mexicans, Brazilians, Central Americans, Venezuelans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans...and ALL of these backgrounds have people running around in Spain that are up to shady shit. Mainly a lot of money laundering, but there's a lot of international drug trafficking going on (mainly cocaine, hash/marijuana and party drugs), hits take place, car theft rings, scams (for instance timeshare scams are notorious and some London firms were huge in this racket in Tenerife years ago)...you name it...
The Spanish locals are fed up, but there's little they can do at the moment and there's no use picking fights you won't win...
'British drug criminal Curtis Warren wants peace in his life' August 27, 2024
British drug criminal Curtis “Cocky” Warren has been sentenced to 14 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, after breaching the terms of his pre-trial release, The Guardian reports .
Liverpool Warren (61) has pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to breaching six conditions following his release from prison in 2022.
Officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested Warren at a home in South Tyneside in July last year .
Spain According to the charges, he failed to notify the NCA of an application for a passport, and withheld details of bank accounts, credit cards, debit cards and communications equipment. He also failed to inform the NCA of all his sources of income.
He also drove a car whose license plate he had not reported to the NCA. Finally, he failed to report a change of address or that he was going on a trip to Spain.
Jersey Curtis Warren served a very long prison sentence in the Netherlands for, among other things, dealing in hard drugs. He is one of the prisoners who spent a very long time in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught.
After his release, he was caught again for drug trafficking. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for large-scale smuggling of soft drugs to the British Channel Island of Jersey, and for failing to pay a confiscation order for £198 million in criminal money (almost 236 million euros).
Warren previously refused to accept a guilty plea and reduced sentence. His lawyer now says his client "doesn't want to be in the spotlight anymore" and wants peace in his life.
Scottish criminal Christopher Hughes, who has been sentenced to life in prison for the contract killing of Dutch crime blogger Martin Kok, was rushed to hospital last month after a brutal attack in a Scottish prison, British media reported.
Hughes, 35, was the victim of a serious assault by one or more inmates at Low Moss Prison in East Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow. The Scot was seriously injured in the brutal attack and was rushed to hospital. He was reportedly attacked in the yard. The attack reportedly resulted in a lot of blood being shed.
Insiders say the attack was part of a growing power struggle at Low Moss prison, home to some of Scotland's most notorious criminals. Scottish police are investigating the attack, but no one has been charged or arrested.
Hughes was sentenced to life imprisonment in April 2022 in the court in Glasgow for his involvement in the liquidation of crime blogger Martin Kok (49), on 8 December 2016 at the Boccaccio sex club in Laren. The sentence has a minimum term of 25 years. This means that Hughes can appeal for release in a quarter of a century.
Hughes was with Kok when the crime blogger was shot dead in his car in the parking lot of the sex club by an unknown gunman. He had alerted others to Kok's location and when he was leaving the club.
The Scot was arrested in a hotel in Italy in January 2020. In addition to the murder of Martin Kok, he was also convicted of participating in a criminal organization and involvement in cocaine trafficking, arms trafficking, money laundering and setting up a company that supplies encrypted communication equipment to international criminal organizations. The drug and arms trafficking took place between 2013 and 2020.
MOB RULE How Italian mafia ‘took over’ quiet UK town & turned it into ‘Surrey Sopranos’ – before daring bank raid took them down Frankie the Strangler drove a Ferrari around the stockbrokers-belt Tom HusseyJonathan Rose Published: 21:11, 8 Sep 2024Updated: 1:16, 9 Sep 2024 THE ITALIAN mafia "took over" a quiet UK town and turned it into the "Surrey Sopranos" before a daring bank raid foiled its plans.
Woking, in northwest Surrey, was a hotbed of crime and mafioso behaviour in the 1970s through the 80s and into the 90s.
Billion dollar smuggling with onions, garlic and ginger Dutch members of largest British drug organisation behind bars for long: 'Only causes death and misery' Marcel Vink
02 Dec 202 4in Domestic
MANCHESTER - Two Dutch who were part of one of the largest drug gangs the United Kingdom has ever known, have been given heavy prison sentences. Our compatriots Johannes V. and Barbara R. from Utrecht will disappear behind British bars for 20 and 18 years.
The court in Manchester ruled on Monday. The gang that may have smuggled £7 billion worth of drugs from mainland Europe over two and a half years has been dismantled after a lengthy investigation, according to British justice.
The prosecutor spoke of probably 'the biggest drug smuggling network' ever discovered in the United Kingdom. Drug boss Paul Green (59), who was nicknamed The Big Fella, was the point of contact for numerous organised crime groups who paid the gang to send heroin, cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis to the United Kingdom.
Green and his accomplices went to great lengths to conceal their involvement as they set up a series of companies and warehouses in the Netherlands and the North of England, using false and stolen identities.
Vegetables as a cover The drugs were hidden in pallets of fresh produce that were sent from our country to the United Kingdom by innocent transport companies. Criminals removed the narcotics after arrival in order to distribute them further in the country. Often it was the import of onions, garlic or ginger because they helped to hide the smell of drugs.
Prosecutor Andrew Thomas said a hallmark of the smuggling gang – active between March 2016 and September 2018 – was its determination to continue importing even after arrests and/or seizures of drug shipments. “As soon as one company was exposed, they would move on to another.”
Only six narcotics seizures were made, but investigators from the National Crime Agency (NCA) were able to prove that at least 240 shipments took place, with up to four shipments a week. Among the wealth of evidence collected were messages on Green's encrypted Encrochat phone, using his handler name 'Duckfarmer', to accomplices in which he arranged the shipments.
Dutch suspects Johannes V. (54) from Utrecht was also convicted, as was Barbara R. (53). She is also originally from Utrecht, but last lived in IJsselstein. They were seen as the Dutch bosses and were sentenced to 20 and 18 years in prison respectively.
The gang members were given a good beating by Judge Paul Lawton. "Your main purpose was the importation of drugs on an international, and hitherto unprecedented, scale worth at least £2 billion and possibly as much as £7 billion." That is the equivalent of between €2.4 and €8.4 billion. "The damage caused beyond the importation is immeasurable. What you really brought was addiction, misery and death."
Also convicted was Russel L. from Kirkby, Liverpool, who speaks fluent Dutch. He was sentenced to almost a quarter of a century in prison.
'Cheaters' Richard Harrison, NCA Regional Head of Investigations, added during the hearing: “Every tactic possible was used to evade detection and deceive justice. The perpetrators smuggled vast quantities of drugs into the UK. They had absolutely no ethics and left a trail of destruction for completely innocent people, cloning companies and stealing identities. Fortunately, the NCA officers and their Dutch partners were tenacious and left no stone unturned in this investigation.”
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia arrested a suspected British drug trafficker they described as "invisible" due to his low-key lifestyle that allowed him to remain anonymous while operating as a cartel's coordinator of cocaine trafficking from the South American country to the United Kingdom, authorities said Friday.
Christopher Neil was arrested Thursday in the northwestern city of Medellin in an operation by local law enforcement and Interpol. They accused Neil of working for Colombia's Clan del Golfo cartel.
Colombian authorities have coined the term "invisible drug traffickers" to describe those who operate discreetly, maintaining ordinary, low-profile lives that contrast with the eccentricity of the country's drug lords in the 1980s and 1990s.
Christopher Neil, a British national known by the alias “Dips,” has been arrested in Medellín in a joint operation involving Colombia’s National Police, INTERPOL, and the Attorney General’s Office. Neil, who was wanted on an INTERPOL red notice, is accused of orchestrating major cocaine shipments to the United Kingdom and engaging in extensive money laundering operations.
Neil is alleged to be a key figure within the Clan del Golfo, one of Colombia’s most notorious drug cartels.
His criminal activities reportedly date back years. Neil is believed to have fled to Colombia in December 2018 after being implicated in two murders in England that investigators say were connected to gang disputes. His arrival in Medellín marked the start of his deeper involvement in Colombia’s criminal underworld.
According to Colombia’s National Police, Neil’s personal life further entrenched him in these circles. He is in a relationship with the daughter of Jesús Ignacio Roldán – “Monoleche” – a former leader of the disbanded paramilitary group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a connection that allegedly facilitated his dealings with local crime syndicates.
Authorities used drones to track Neil’s movements around Medellín, where he was known for his ostentatious lifestyle. He frequently traveled in high-end vehicles and was often spotted walking his Pit Bull dogs, and dressed in the Atlético Nacional football jersey, blending in with fans near the city’s stadium.
