A drugs kingpin from Birmingham posing as a property developer was actually the head of an organised crime gang capable of producing millions of pounds worth of cannabis.

Roman Le, who is originally from Vietnam but is now a British citizen based in Essex Street, was the mastermind behind cannabis operations which ran out of derelict clubs and pubs in Birmingham , Solihull , Wolverhampton, Dudley , Coventry, Lancashire and Lincolnshire.

On one occasion, while Le and his gang were under surveillance, officers watched Le park his Bentley Continental outside the former Big Bamboo nightclub in Coventry before heading inside.

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The site was later raided by the NCA and West Midlands Police ,

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