Drug-dealing sisters at the centre of a huge trafficking operation have been ordered to pay back thousands of pounds of their ill-gotten gains. A total of 17 people were jailed in December 2020 after Greater Manchester Police smashed a cross-Pennine drugs ring, seizing more than 60 kilos of heroin and cocaine and £300,000 in criminal cash.
Shazia Din, 44, led a Bury-based crime group together with her older sister Abia Din, 47, a court was told. A beauty business - The Beauty Booth - was set up in Bury as a front to launder dirty money made from vast profits, police said.
The conspiracy branched out to include drug addicts and those indebted to dealers across Greater Manchester and Yorkshire, who were recruited as couriers to carry the drugs and cash across the borders.
