A Haslingden recycling company director used Encrochat to make plans to smuggle cocaine from Holland in frozen chicken vans as part of a £40m conspiracy, a jury has been told.
A Haslingden recycling company director used Encrochat to make plans to smuggle cocaine from Holland in frozen chicken vans as part of a £40m conspiracy, a jury has been told.
Mr Fryman told a jury of eight women and four men that Mr Bashir played a 'senior' role in a conspiracy that took place between October 2019 and December 2021, and involved a number of people, including Sohail Ali, who went by the username 'Liquid Emu' on Encrochat. Ali, 37, of Revidge Road, Blackburn, has previously admitted to being involved in the conspiracy.
"The prosecution say you don't have to be Einsteen or a rocket scientist. That's this defendant revealing that he's using West Street." In one sent on March 30 2020, 'West Street' allegedly said to Ali: “Stop having work done at your house, you've got 25 tops around you”. In the notes section of the 'West Street' Encrochat account was an "extensive" plan to smuggle drugs from the continent. Mr Fryman said: “The importation of the cocaine included an extensive plan.
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