Luxury cars, Gucci clothes, and wads of cash. Criminal gangs have a taste for the finer things in life and even after they've been locked up in prison, police have a job on their hands retrieving millions of pounds worth of ill-gotten gains. Take 'The Company' for example.
Last month the final seven of the 15-strong gang were jailed for their part in an international car theft ring. It came four years after police had first carried out raids. The six men who have now been sentenced for their roles in the gang.
Top row L-R: Asif Matadar, Shewaz Rehman and Imran Taj. Bottom row L-R: Zeeshan Ali, Adam Elwood and Mohammed Irfan. The Oldham-based firm had hit on a way of making millions from stealing high-end cars to order and sending then abroad.
Others were stripped in one of seven chop shops across Greater Manchester and the parts sold. Read more: They posed as Manchester Airport valets, cruised estates and left families terrified - inside 'the Company' From February 2019 to January 2021 the gang stole 90 vehicles amounting to an overall loss of £3m. Land Rovers and Range Rovers were shipped to Dubai and Turkey.
The six members of the gang sentenced in 2022. Top row L-R: Asif Hussain, Ibraaz Shafique, Tayub Hasnain Bottom row L-R: Hadir Ali, Saijid Jangharia, Mohammed Abdullah But in the aftermath of the seven being sentenced Detective Chief Inspector, Roger Smethurst, indicated the police still had work to do. Jail sentences were not the only punishment.
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