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Investigations are underway into how members of a five-man drugs syndicate benefitted from their crimes.
And they are each due to appear in the Royal Court again in the coming months.
The men are to face “confiscation hearings”, where the money or purchases they made from their crimes will be outlined.
The court can then make a confiscation order to recover the proceedings of crime.
Pictured: Operation Elf began in 2022 when customs officers intercepted a postal packet containing 185 grams of cocaine.
Aaron Nursaw (33) and 34-year-old Michael Quinn will face hearings on 28 February, while Samuel Kyle Dawson (28), Jordan Neil Barnett-Roberts (23) and Ibrahim Roslan (36) will appear on 11 April.
The five were arrested and convicted in a large-scale joint operation between Jersey Customs and Immigration Services and the police forces in Jersey and Merseyside, called Operation Elf.
It began in June 2022, when customs officers intercepted a postal packet from Liverpool addressed to Barnett-Roberts and containing 185 grams of cocaine.
They substituted the drugs with fakes and sent it on to Barnett-Roberts, who gave the package to Roslan. Roslan was then seen taking it into a house with Dawson.
Pictured (from left to right): Kyle Dawson (28) and 35-year-old Ibrahim Roslan.
Quinn was arrested in July 2023, when customs officers intercepted a postal packet containing 54 grams of cocaine and 2,500 ecstasy tablets. Phone and phone and forensic evidence linked him to the drugs.
And in October 2023 a parcel containing 164 grams of cocaine was intercepted. Roslan was arrested in Liverpool by Merseyside Police and handed over to customs officers who escorted him back to Jersey.
When Merseyside Police searched Roslan's flat, they discovered 2,000 ecstasy tablets.
In November last year the five men were sentenced to a total of 36 years and six months between them, plus 456 hours of community service.
In an exclusive interview with Express last week, the officers who led the operation shared the inside story of how they brought down an international drug syndicate – and the painstaking work behind the headlines.
INSIGHT: Behind the scenes of Operation Elf
Operation Elf: Drugs syndicate jailed for total of over 36 years
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