Richard Beech A FAILED businessman become the sixth and final member of an organised crime ring operating in Bradford to be put behind bars this month. Richard Beech was jailed for five years for laundering £5 million of drugs money for the gang. He made frequent trips between his home in Manchester and West Yorkshire to collect and deliver large amounts of cash concealed in hidden compartments under the seats of his specially modified Range Rover. He was labelled the “cash converter and banker” for the organisation led by Rashid Ashraf (also known as Mohammed Rashid) who was jailed for 18 years.
The men jailed this week in Bradford for various offences including robbery, drugs offences and paedophilia THESE are the people who were jailed this week in Bradford for a range of offences including paedophilia, drugs offences and robbery.
THREE men were jailed for their roles in a major organised crime ring operating in the Bradford area. Father of three Yaser Nazir was imprisoned for five years and three months after the police seized £1.214 million of cocaine and heroin when they busted the operation. Nazir, 38, of Lindley Road, Little Horton, Bradford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine. Prosecutor Alasdair Campbell said he was involved with the gang on March 5 and 19 this year.
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Friday, 18th December 2020, 3:31 pm
The last of the group, Richard Beech, 46, of Urmston Lane in Manchester, was jailed today (Friday) at Bradford Crown Court for five years after he admitted possessing criminal property and transfer of criminal property to the value of £5m.
Over 25kg of Class A drugs with a combined street value of up to £3m, four semi-automatic pistols (with 200 rounds of ammunition), four silencers and £300,000 in cash were also seized during the investigation by the Force’s Programme Precision team.
The other five, who have already been sentenced at Bradford Crown Court under the same operation, are:
Cash seized during the police investigation Officers stopped an Audi A3 in the Girlington area of Bradford on Thursday, February 20, this year. Shah was the driver and 5kg of high purity cocaine, with a street value of up to £400,000, and £50,000 in cash was found. Further enquiries led the search team to another address where 11kg of cocaine and 3kg of heroin was found. Four guns and 50 rounds of ammunition were also found. Further enquiries led officers to stop two other vehicles in March. A taxi being driven by Altaf was found to contain 2kg of high purity cocaine worth up to £160,000, and a vehicle occupied by Haleem and Nazir and stopped in the Little Horton area of Bradford had inside it 1kg of high purity cocaine.