Mafia drugs case: Islanders in court

Thursday 26th April 2007, 12:00AM BST.

THREE Jersey residents have appeared in court in Rennes charged in connection with a multi-million-pound drug smuggling operation involving the Russian mafia.

The drugs run which resulted in their being charged was just one of several over a period of two years before 2005 masterminded by the biggest dealer on the Costa del Sol, a ‘Mr Big’ who liaised with British criminal gangs, Moroccan dealers and the Russian Mafia. Jersey, it appears, was being used as a backdoor route to the UK. The Rennes Court heard yesterday how a London couple hired to act as drug mules drove a Spanish registered four-wheel-drive towing a compressor from Malaga to St Malo in May 2005.

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