Jail for drug baron who staged car crash

An Encrochat drug baron staged a car crash just minutes before he was due to stand trial was jailed for more than 14 years. Shazad Ahmad Shabir, 15, ran a major cocaine and heroin dealing operation until law enforcement bodies across Europe took down the secretive messaging app in 2020. Decoded EncroChat messages showed Shabir was part of an organised criminal gang moving vast quantities of drugs across Cambridgeshire. Shabir was first arrested by the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit…