Dealer imported £3.6m worth of contraband in a month

A drug baron who smuggled 15kg of cocaine in the UK every week has been jailed for 18 years. Heemal Vaid, 49, used the alias ‘Starcake’ on EncroChat before law enforcement agencies across Europe cracked the app favoured by criminals in 2020. Vaid secured a series of massive drug deals with his associated before his messages were passed to the NCA. Investigators found he arranged for 96kg of cocaine, worth £3.6m, to be imported from Brazil in just a month…