Gang who flooded Stratford with MDMA ordered to pay back more than £3m
A gang who ran an international drugs ring supplying Stratford with cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines, and MDMA has been ordered to pay back more than £3m. Lukasz Albert Strag, Tomasz Kuflowski-Swistak, and Michal Wawrzycki were also jailed for more than 35 years combined.
Lukasz Albert Strag, nicknamed 'Roztrzepany', was responsible for transporting the drugs from Europe into the UK. He would then take the money to Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands and act as a courier for the purchased goods, delivering them to a processing and distribution centre, Warwickshire Police said.
Tomasz Kuflowski-Swistak, otherwise known as 'P', was involved in the distribution of drugs once they arrived in the UK. He would deliver 5kg batches of amphetamines, which were referred to as 'Polish breakfasts.'
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Michal Wawrzycki was identified as one of the main recipients of incoming drugs to the UK. He had his own network in Stratford through which he could move the drugs on and used a pair of tanning salons, one in Rugby and one in Stratford, as a means to disguise the income from these activities, according to Warwickshire Police.
Strag, 44, from Leicester, was ordered to pay £1,367,929.13 at Birmingham Crown Court in September. He was previously sentenced to 20 years in jail, Warwickshire Police said.
Kuflowski-Swistak, 49, from Peterborough, was ordered to pay £459,127.61 over a three-month period and received eight years in prison as part of a previous sentencing. Wawrzycki, 41, from Stratford, was previously jailed for seven years and six months and is required to pay back £1,201,313.67.
PSI Andrew Lee said: “Strag, Kuflowski-Swistak, and Wawrzycki were responsible for the movement of a substantial amount of drugs into the UK, and those drugs will have directly ruined lives, not only for those purchasing them but for multitudes from their production to their movement and sale.”
He added: “We are very happy to have shown them that crime does not pay, and we will take back every penny that we can.”
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