A kingpin who ran a gang responsible for one of the biggest gun-running plots ever seen in the UK benefited from crime to the tune of £52m.

Omar Malik, 40, was at the head of a gang which flooded the country with drugs and guns. A ledger kept by Malik revealed over a five month period, the outfit sold up to £70m-worth of drugs.

The gang also supplied organised crime gangs across the country with deadly weapons, including Skorpion sub-machine guns and Grand Power pistols. The gang acquired 49 Grand Power pistols for £147,000 and offered them for sale for between £5,000 and £8,000 each.

They also got hold of 52 Skorpion machine guns. By May 2020 at least 48 were sold to criminals for between £9,000 and £15,000 each.

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