Pictures have revealed the lonely London flat where a quiet couple’s fortune from a £700m cocaine racket was hidden.
Arti Dil, 59, and her younger husband Kaval Raijada, 35, were both sentenced to 33 years in prison this week after they were found to have smuggled cocaine into Australia between 2019 and 2021. received.
The pair laundered the money in a Breaking Bad-style car wash, moving the £3 million in boxes and suitcases to various storage locations across the capital, and storing seven gold-plated bullion bars in punching bags in their dirty flat. I hid the book.
They spent at least four years planning the crime to avoid extradition for the murder of an 11-year-old boy in India, the National Crime Agency told The Sun.
New photos reveal the squalid apartment where the couple stored their illegal items, featuring dirty red carpets, dirty walls and dilapidated furniture.
A £50 note worth thousands of pounds was seen on the bedside table, and another image shows seven bars of bullion laid out after the discovery.
Other photos show dozens of boxes and suitcases hidden inside storage containers in London.
Dil and Raijada, who was more than 20 years younger than his wife, were so shameless in their crimes that while they were fighting extradition from the UK to India, they continued to hatch drug smuggling schemes and were suspected of plotting murders in India. It is. Leave a £150,000 insurance policy for his adopted child.
NCA senior investigator Piers Phillips said: “We believe they have been planning this operation for a long time, probably going back to 2015.”
Locals in Hanwell town said they had no idea the “strange” couple were secretly serious criminals.
Rose O’Sullivan said she remembers having a casual conversation with Deal, a seemingly pleasant neighbor, a few years ago.
“I was gardening and she leaned out the back window and said hello. She seemed like a nice, normal person,” Rose, 52, said. Ta.
“I remember asking how she was and she said she was fine. We talked about the nice weather and simple things like, [that].
“The only other time I saw her was when she was taking out the trash. She was wearing traditional Indian costume and said hello.”
Ms Deal, a British national, first came to the UK as a child when many Asians fled their home countries due to persecution.
The couple met around 2010 when Raijada traveled from India to the UK to study, but ended up taking a job caring for Dill’s elderly father instead. The couple married three years after her and hatched a get-rich-quick plan.
Police believe the masterminds used the skills they learned to set up their own air cargo transport company, Vielfi Freight Services, and used this as a cover to export cocaine worth £700m to Australia. ing.