In one of the biggest drug rackets in Birmingham, Zarak Khan and Shabaz Ali, both 28, a part of a gang in Birmingham was caught and is to receive a jail sentence for more than 130 years for being involved in a Class A drug ring where officers seized £1.5 million cocaine and heroin, with evidence of more drugs being produced and hidden in specially adapted secret compartments in cars.
Khan and Ali were arrested when they were found with three blocks of cocaine worth £300,000 when the police raided a garage. They admitted to drug charges and conspiracy to supply cocaine and were jailed at the Birmingham Crown Court last September.
Khan from Vale Crescent South, Nottingham in possession of a shotgun, pistol and ammunition got 15 years, and Ali of Foxhall Road received 15 years and five months. The drug network was handled by an Albanian gangster Asmirald Miraka who imported the cocain and used cars to deliver the cocaine.
His Albanian couriers were Desar Asllani, Arjol Cerriku and Aleks Asllani, who were illegally distributed kilos of cocaine between July 2015 and January this year.
West Midlands Police officers used intelligence and Detective Constable Warren Moore, from the Serious and Organised Crime Unit, said: “This was a sophisticated operation involving large amounts of cocaine and heroin.
“Miraka was the lynchpin in co-ordinating the supply of drugs to other dealers and there is no doubt this would have continued without police intervention.
“Drugs can ruin lives and communities and these sentences should act as a strong warning that those involved in such crime will feel the full force of the law.”
