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£22m West Midlands heroin smuggler
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28/03/2025
Videos found on the man’s phone showed him handling the drugs and testing the purity of the heroin.
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Dad, who smuggled £22 million worth of heroin into the UK, was nailed by police
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when he filmed a TV-style advert of himself promoting the drugs.
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Birmingham man Arfan Mirza ran a multi-million pound heroin smuggling operation through
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carrier bag shipments. According to the National Crime Agency, he imported heroin with a potential
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street value of £22 million into the UK from Pakistan. The dad of four headed up a massive
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drug smuggling operation which saw consignments disguised as shopping bags and sports goods.
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A court heard how he filmed himself in his kitchen boasting about how easy it had been
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to smuggle the class-A drugs into the country. The video acted as an advert for potential street
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dealers after he imported 220 kilos of heroin into the UK. Two drug consignments were intercepted
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at Heathrow airport in February 2020. The consignments listed as containing shopping
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bags from Pakistan were inspected by border force officers and found to contain a total
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of 20 kilos worth of heroin. NCA officers probed Mirza's phone data and business records
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held by courier companies. They discovered he was behind the importation of 30 similar consignments
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bringing in others to accept deliveries at their addresses.
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Videos found on Mirza's phone show him handling the drugs and testing the purity of the heroin.
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A search of his home found parts of the carrier bags which had been used as a cover load
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as well as mobile phones and SIM cards, the numbers of which could be linked to contact
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details on the consignments. In subsequent interviews with NCA officers, Mirza claimed
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that an unknown person agreed to reduce his gambling debts by £1,000 if he allowed the
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parcel to be delivered to his house. Analysts at the NCA believe Mirza imported a total of 220 kilos
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of heroin between March 2019 and February 2020 with a potential street value of £22 million.
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Mirza was arrested in February 2020 for conspiring to import controlled substances into the UK.
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During his trial, Mirza admitted his involvement in the offences
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and that previous parcels had included heroin.
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He also admitted collecting the drugs and then sending them on to others involved in the supply chain.
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He was convicted following a trial at Birmingham Crim Court and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
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Judge Heidi Kubik KC described Mirza as head of the drugs operation in the UK
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and said he had played a pivotal role in the success of the illegal activity.
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She described Mirza's lack of remorse and said he had only provided a self-serving account
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into how he became involved.
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