A cocaine dealer “fought tooth and nail” in a failed attempt to stop his extradition from the Netherlands to face justice in Merseyside.
Behnam Tavakoli-Juibari was responsible for tracking the sale of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine through England, Scotland and Wales in a huge conspiracy run from the Wirral. He was jailed for 15 years on Friday after a judge said his position, which included keeping detailed accounts of the gang’s finances in notebooks, meant he was a crucial part of the plot’s short term success.
The group, which included eight other members who were jailed back in 2018, focused on the supply of cocaine to all corners of Britain but also saw them move large quantities of heroin and MDMA during the first half of 2016. Officers who raided a Wirral address used by the gang in July of that year found a £1.4m stash including more than 9kg of cocaine, 7kg of unadulterated heroin, 10,000 MDMA pills and 11,000 diazepam tablets.
