Joe Bruno on the Mob – European Drug Dealers Are Not the Sharpest Knifes in the Drawer
Fourteen European crooks are now in jail for drug smuggling and money laundering because one moron left a receipt for 100,000 pounds for ship repairs in the wastepaper basket.
Scotland Yard detectives said they got their first clue in smashing an International drug trafficking ring, with links to the Albanian Mafia, and a 10 million pound money-laundering racket, when they, and the Spanish Navy, stopped a ship on the high seas. Upon searching this ship — low and behold — they found this receipt which led to the arrests of Anthony Briggs and Rayner Jane Rothery. One thing led to another and before you know it – bango! – 300 million pounds of cocaine was found in a pleasure boat in Southampton docks. As a result, Scotland Yard says 14 people in Britain have been jailed for a total of 77 years. In addition, in Spain, another 10 people are awaiting trail.
Didn't any of these fools ever watch television, or even a movie? When a piece of incriminating evidence needs to be disposed of, it is always burned, until it is nothing more than smoldering ashes. The evidence is never discarded into a wastepaper basket, just waiting to be found.
Bottom line, if you burn the evidence, not even Sherlock Holmes, or Hercule Poirot, or even Jane Marple can crack your case. You drop the evidence in a wastepaper basket, you're begging to get caught.
Morons!
The article below, which first appeared in the London Evening Standard, was re-printed in Mafia Today. The link is below.
http://mafiatoday.com/general-breakin...
£350m drug plot foiled by receipt
August 4, 2011
"Detectives today revealed how they smashed a £350million cocaine smuggling plot – after spotting a receipt in a waste paper basket.
The find led to the unravelling of an international drug trafficking ring with links to the Albanian mafia and a £10million money-laundering racket.
A tonne of high grade cocaine bound for London was recovered when Scotland Yard detectives and the Spanish navy stopped a ship on the high seas.
The former Canadian coastguard vessel was identified after a £100,000 receipt for ship repairs was found in a waste bin during a drugs raid in Hillingdon in 2009.
Two members of the drugs ring were jailed at Kingston crown court yesterday. Anthony Briggs, 55, was given 12 months for money laundering, possession of a class A drug and possession of CS gas. Rayner Jane Rothery, 46, also received 12 months after admitting money laundering and conspiracy to pervert the court of justice.
The case comes after details were revealed yesterday of a haul of £300million of cocaine found in a pleasure boat in Southampton docks.
Scotland Yard said 14 people in Britain have now been jailed for a total of 77 years in connection with the plot. Spanish authorities arrested 10 people who are all awaiting trial in Spain.
Detectives unpicked an international network stretching from London to Spain, Albania, the Caribbean and Colombia.
Source: thisislondon.co.uk
