Over £3m recovered from Warwickshire drug dealers - huge jail sentences handed out

By James Smith

24th Oct 2024 | Local News

The three men have been jailed for a combined 35 years and six months (image via Warwickshire Police)
The three men have been jailed for a combined 35 years and six months (image via Warwickshire Police)

Three men involved in an international class A drugs ring supplying South Warwickshire with cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, and amphetamines have been served with confiscation orders amounting to over £3 million.

This was in addition to a combined 35 years and six months in prison given during a previous sentencing.

Lukasz Albert Strag, 44 from Leicester, is required to pay £1,367,929.13 over the course of three months following an order from Birmingham Crown Court on 30 September.

He has also been handed 20 years in prison.

Strag, nicknamed "Roztrzepany", was responsible for the transportation of drugs from Europe into the UK, taking the money over to Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands and acting as a courier for the purchased goods to deliver them to a processing and distribution centre.

Tomasz Kuflowski-Swistak, 49 of Peterborough, is required to pay £459,127.61 over the course of three months and has received eight years in prison.

Swistak, otherwise known as "P", was involved in the distribution of drugs once they arrived in the country, delivering 5kg batches of amphetamines referred to as "Polish breakfasts".

Michal Wawrzycki, 41 of Stratford-upon-Avon, is required to pay £1,201,313.67 over the course of three months.

This is in addition to a prison sentence of seven years and six months.

Wawrzycki was identified as one of the main recipients of incoming drugs to the UK, and had his own network in the area of Stratford-upon-Avon through which he could move the drugs on.

He also used a pair of tanning salons, one in Rugby and one in Stratford, as a means to disguise the income from these activities.

Investigating officer PSI Andrew Lee said "These men were responsible for the movement of a substantial amount of class A drugs into the UK.

"Those drugs will have directly ruined lives – not only for those purchasing them, but for multitudes from their production to their movement and sale.

"We are very happy to have shown them that crime doesn't pay – we will take back every penny that we can."

The Regional Organised Crime Unit for the West Midlands Region (ROCUWM) carried out the investigation as part of Op Target, a major initiative to target serious and organised crime across Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Mercia, and the West Midlands policing areas.

     

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