Inside the £14million cocaine plot linking Britain’s streets to the world’s most wanted drug kingpin

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EXCLUSIVE: Around £14m of cocaine linked to Dutch crime lord "Chubby Jos" was seized before completing its planned 5,000 mile journey to the address in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham

From Bogota to Birmingham via West Africa, this is the extra-ordinary journey of cocaine bound for British users.

We can reveal the world’s most wanted coke trafficker – Dutch drugs kingpin Jos Leijdekkers, known as “Chubby Jos” – has been linked to a huge shipment said to have been bound for a suburban semi in Birmingham.

Around £14million of the class-A powder was seized in Liberia before completing its planned 5,000-mile journey from Colombia to the address in the Bordesley Green area of the city.

Officials in Liberia discovered the consignment disguised as stock cubes on a Brussels Airways flight heading to Heathrow in June. British national Usman Ali has been charged in the West African country, along with four others, in connection with the plot and is currently the subject of an international manhunt.

We have seen the indictment in which Ali is named, along with the Birmingham address linked to him where the drugs were said to be destined.

The shipment had come from neighbouring Sierra Leone and has been linked by police to Dutch cocaine kingpin Leijdekkers.

A second £230million cocaine seizure, the largest in Liberia’s history, was stopped in the capital Monrovia in July. Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor was charged with drug trafficking, money laundering and other offences in connection with this shipment.

Croatian national Nikola Ivancic is accused of masterminding the plot. Leijdekkers, 35, has built one of the world’s most powerful cocaine empires from his base in West Africa, under the alleged protection of some of Sierra Leone’s most powerful figures.

Liberian Senator Amara Konneh visited Britain this week to lobby MPs and peers in an effort to win support for his fight against Leijdekkers’ organised crime group.

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