GANGLAND

GANGLAND USERS

GANGLAND IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE PROJECT

Gangland was started ten years ago as a methods of tracking and reporting the social growth of gangs worldwide.It is based on factual reporting from journalists worldwide.Research gleaned from Gangland is used to better understand the problems surrounding the unprecedented growth during this period and societies response threw the courts and social inititives. Gangland is owner and run by qualified sociologists and takes no sides within the debate of the rights and wrongs of GANG CULTURE but is purely an observer.GANGLAND has over a million viewers worldwide.Please note by clicking on "Post Comment" you acknowledge that you have read the Terms of Service and the comment you are posting is in compliance with such terms. Be polite.
PROFANITY,RACIST COMMENT Inappropriate posts may be removed by the moderator.
Send us your feedback

Comments

Comments:This is your opportunity to speak out about the story you just read. We encourage all readers to participate in this forum.Please follow our guidelines and do not post:Potentially libelous statements or damaging innuendo, such as accusing somebody of a crime, defaming someone's character, or making statements that can harm somebody's reputation.Obscene, explicit, or racist language.Personal attacks, insults, threats, harassment, or posting comments that incite violence.Comments using another person's real name to disguise your identity.Commercial product promotions.Comments unrelated to the story.Links to other Web sites.While we do not edit comments, we do reserve the right to remove comments that violate our code of conduct.If you feel someone has violated our posting guidelines please contact us immediately so we can remove the post. We appreciate your help in regulating our online community. Read more: http://royalespot.blogspot.com/#ixzz0cg4WCuMS

Search Gangland

Custom Search

Saturday 28 June 2014

Ian and Jason Fitzgibbon facing jail over £7m drug smuggling


22:57 |

Key members of Liverpool’s notorious Fitzgibbon crime family today faced lengthy jail terms over an international plot to flood Merseyside with super-strength heroin. Drug lords Jason and Ian Fitzgibbon were behind a lucrative plan to import 57kg of the class  A drug from Turkey.  But their scheme was foiled after Turkish police smashed a drugs racket in Istanbul – with the  trail leading back to Liverpool. Jason, 40, and Ian, 39, appeared at Manchester crown court for sentencing, along with their mum Christine, 52, who admitted laundering drug cash found  hidden in her Mossley Hill home.

Ian also admitted an £800k plot to flood Merseyside with 168,000 ecstasy tablets. Paul Mitchell, prosecuting, said: "The drug dealing involved huge quantities of both heroin and Ecstasy.  "It involved the importation of multi kilogram quantities of the drugs into this country and then the onward supply of those drugs.

 The scope of the enterprise was truly breathtaking. " Those involved had established criminal networks not only in the United Kingdom but in foreign countries including Turkey, from where they were obtaining massive quantities of heroin.  "Huge quantities of money were generated by this activity and substantial sums were discovered secreted by the criminal group when their homes were searched.  There is also evidence of criminal money being moved around the country by the group as well as being sent abroad by them." The court this morning heard that the 60%-pure heroin would have cost around 300,000 euros to buy wholesale from Turkey but generate almost £7m at street value.

Intelligence from England to the Turkish gendarmerie stopped the deal in its tracks and on  September 26, 2011, five local drug traffickers were rounded up. In the boot of a car officers discovered 114 half kilo packs of heroin wrapped in brown tape. Fitzgibbon and his sidekick Danny Smith were booked to fly from Manchester to Zurich and  then on to Istanbul.    A return by the same route was booked and paid for – but neither man returned on that  flight.    Instead, Fitzgibbon bought a return flight on Turkish Airlines at the airport on  July 10, paying  cash.

The court heard how there were two Western Union money transfers sent from Liverpool to  one of the Turks later caught red handed with the heroin.   The aftermath of the failed drug deal in Turkey was recorded in part by a covert listening  device.   On October 6, Ian Fitzgibbon was recorded remarking: “That’s the story of Jason’s life, that  Turkey thing.  Three hundred quid…three hundred quid they owe us.”  Police say ‘quid’ was a codeword for ‘thousand’, and 300,000 euros was the wholesale cost  of the heroin.


You Might Also Like :


0 comments:

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails