Inside story of ’Britain’s biggest’ drug barons

THEIR unassuming suburban life revealed nothing of their secret identities. Neighbours of Arti Dhir and her husband Kaval Raijada might have raised an eyebrow at the 15-year age difference between the pair; she a stern-looking matronly type, while he was a dapper dresser in sharp suits. But they had no idea that the low-profile couple, who kept a grubby housing association flat in West London, had not only escaped extradition over the murder of an 11-year-old boy in India but were two of Britain’s biggest drug barons. Dhir, 59, and Raijada, 35, - the Escobars of Ealing - were this week each jailed for 33 years for smuggling £700m of cocaine to Australia between 2019 and 2021. They set up a Breaking Bad-style car wash to launder their ill-gotten gains, moved £3million in boxes and suitcases around various storage lock-ups in London and hid seven gold-plated bullion bars in a punchbag at their flat. National Crime Agency cops told The Sun how the couple spent at lea
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