No Borders... Here's One Of The Reasons.

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The UK left-leaning dying media are pouring over the story about stranded trucks at the south-east coast
that were unable to get to mainland Europe due to France's President Macron saying "Non".

The reason -he said, was because of a Covid-variant found in the London area that may cross the English
Channel and contaminate his country. (Even though, it's already over there!) The reality is this shun is merely
because of Brexit and the difficult negotiations going on at this time and the trucks are mostly empty with
drivers just wishing to get home for Christmas.


But with this article, Mr. Macron is right to stall the journeys. Borders, eh...? who needs 'em!

British haulier ran Europe-wide drug ring from living room

'A British haulier shipped drugs for gangs across Europe from his Warrington living room in lockdown.

Thomas Maher has been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to more than 14 years in jail after pleading
guilty to drugs and money-laundering charges. He made thousands of pounds a week, using an encrypted
Encrochat phone to fix the movement of drugs and money.

He is the first major crime boss jailed using messages obtained when French police cracked the Encrochat
network. The phones were considered mandatory for high-end organised crime, and more than a thousand
suspects have been arrested on the strength of the evidence their messages contain.


Thomas Maher and his 'No-Borders-Needed' lifestyle.

Maher, 39, used the Encrochat handles "Satirical" and "Snacker" as he did deals with organised crime networks
in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey and Bulgaria.
The National Crime Agency says he was "hugely influential" among Europe's drug cartels.

Sentencing him, Judge Aubrey QC said Maher was "a high-ranking facilitator... a go-between for criminal networks
needing to transport their drugs between Holland and Ireland". Passing a sentence of 14 years and eight months,
the judge told Maher: "You were an extremely important cog in the wheel of a sophisticated network."

Maher would arrange for lorries to move massive loads of drugs hidden alongside legitimate cargoes such as
fruit or wine in one direction and then to bring cash in the other direction. Police found out about his operation after
he was arrested in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants while they were being transported to the
UK in October 2019. He had previously owned the trailer in which they were found.

The NCA put him under surveillance in an attempt to identify the scale of his criminal activities.
However, the cracking of the Encrochat network by French intelligence and the Gendarmerie provided the National
Crime Agency with thousands of his encrypted messages.
They were able to watch, almost in real time, as he did deals with crime bosses around Europe.

Martin Clark, from the NCA, said he posed as an "honest haulier", but was in fact "very much a professional facilitator
and he's done it all remotely sitting in his living room". "He's never personally been anywhere near any of it."

In fact, the NCA said he had been scrupulous about social distancing during the pandemic while communicating via
Encrochat with dozens of criminals. The evidence the agency has uncovered shines a new light on the way in which
a smuggling network operates.

Maher would be contacted by clients wanting to move hundreds of kilos of drugs.
The messages were written in criminal slang. He would discuss deals involving shipments of "tops" (top shelf drugs
such as cocaine), or "Colo" (the purest form from Colombia).

Heroin, which he deemed a more downmarket drug, was known as "bottoms".
Shipments might come from "The Flat" (The Netherlands) and the lorry returned with "paper" (cash)...'

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