Waqas Mahmood, Xavier Khalid, Asif Iqbal, Mihai Dumitru and Philip Wilkinson used Vietnamese nationals to cultivate and harvest the cannabis at factories in Burnley and Pendle
Members of an organised crime group who conspired to run multi-million-pound cannabis factories in East Lancashire have been jailed for more than 27 years..
Subsequently, the OCG took measures to protect the valuable drug, including the installation of CCTV cameras and security lights, installed by OCG’s electrician, Philip Wilkinson. The same CCTV cameras caught Iqbal and other men of South East Asian appearance leaving the mill with bin liners containing cannabis plants and cannabis cultivation equipment.
In June 2017, officers received a call to say numerous people had forced entry into Trafalgar Mill. A number of people, including a Vietnamese national, were detained and a cannabis factory valued at £225,000 was found within the basement. A Vietnamese national was present in the house when officers arrived. She was later dealt with by Immigration officers.
In April 2018 the force attended Trafalgar Mill due to an overwhelming smell of cannabis. With heightened security, including the same metal gates within the mill as seen Whitefield Mill and Leeds Road, officers had to force their way in. On that occasion, Wilkinson, Khalid and Dumitru took Sports Direct branded bags into a part of the mill where a concealed entrance to a cannabis factory was later found. On the same night, Khalid was captured delivering a person of South-East Asian appearance to the mill, he was led to the concealed entrance by Dumitru.
Further cannabis valued at more than £26,000 was found in a fridge. Three Vietnamese men were also found within the property were arrested.
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