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-Come on!

-On the run...

-Get back here!

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-..and over here.

-Hands out now! Hands out!

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When foreign criminals flee their home countries,

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many hide out in the UK.

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-Give me your hands.

-But if they think they're safe, they're wrong.

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'They know they're wanted.

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'A lot of these people are waiting for that knock on the door.'

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But the traffic in fugitives isn't all one way.

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Across Europe, there are hundreds of British criminals

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also trying to escape justice.

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From the sun-drenched Costas

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to the busy streets of the Dutch capital...

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..this is how the police take down the fugitives...

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You're under arrest under the extradition act.

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Police officer!

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..both at home and abroad.

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In today's programme,

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could a man accused of murder during these riots

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now be working in a West London newsagents?

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-Is this your photograph?

-No, sir. This one is not mine.

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And how a major British drugs baron got his comeuppance

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thanks to determined undercover Dutch officers.

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When we heard it was a big fish we said to each other,

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"You can run but you can't hide."

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In London, the Metropolitan Police's extradition unit deals with hundreds

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of cases each year.

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It's DS Pete Rance's job to track down men and women wanted

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in other countries.

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There's a real mix of cases that we deal with.

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Some are as simple as knocking on a front door

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and people come willingly,

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Others involve a lot of resources, a lot of time,

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a lot of effort, a lot of detective work

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to actually confirm people's identities.

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And, you know, there are...

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Living in the UK, there are people who don't want to be found.

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Can you open the door, please? It's the police.

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Most of the extradition unit's work involves finding fugitives

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from other European countries hiding out in the capital,

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but they're also responsible for arresting those

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who are wanted further afield.

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The team do deal with a wide range of offences.

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They can be from a fraud -

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what we'd consider to be a straightforward fraud -

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through to wanted for murder.

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We get requests from all over the world

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and they are broken up into two regions.

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One is EU and then the other is non-EU.

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And there's different legislation and different thresholds

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that need to be met for those two areas.

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Back in 2002, riots in the Gujarat region of India

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hit the headlines around the world.

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-NEWS FOOTAGE:

-These were Muslim homes torched last night

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by an armed mob. Most of the Muslims fled, but not all.

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-Five or six.

-REPORTER:

-Five or six children.

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Widespread unrest between Muslims and Hindus led to the destruction

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of villages and towns, and left over 3,000 people dead.

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Intelligence that's just landed on Pete's desk indicates that one of

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those accused of particularly serious offences

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could now be living in London. It's disturbing reading.

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These are statements from people in India detailing what they saw

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and what happened.

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You know, it's... Some of it's quite...graphic.

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You know, people being sprayed with kerosene.

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That's the sort of thing we're dealing with here in terms of...

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what he's believed to have been part of.

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The accused man's name is Samir Vinubhai Patel -

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wanted for murder, arson and riot in India.

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The accusation is that a group of Hindu men have attacked

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a Muslim village, poured kerosene on properties.

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It resulted in burning people alive. Extremely serious.

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And India issued a formal request

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for the extradition of Samir Vinubhai Patel,

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after an Interpol circulation had been made

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seeking his whereabouts.

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With new information about a potential address for Patel in

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West London, Pete wastes no time in briefing his colleagues,

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DCs Dave Salmon and Carly Rigg.

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So the intention today is to go to this bloke's work address,

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which is a newsagents over in... Near Heathrow Airport, in Hounslow.

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I'll go into the address, ascertain that he's in there and working.

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He was in there last week working on the Tuesday.

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We had someone have eyes on him last week.

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So we're confident there's a strong possibility that he'll be there.

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-Right.

-Everyone happy?

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Yeah, happy with that.

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The key to establishing the suspect's identity

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is a series of photographs linking Patel to the riots in India

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and a later offence in the UK.

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The gentleman that they want is this individual here.

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It's the person that's wanted in India.

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We know that that same man made an application for a UK visa

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back in 2005 and the application was granted in 2006.

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And the work we've done has established that this individual

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was arrested in 2013 for shoplifting in the UK, in London.

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And it's our belief that these two men are one and the same.

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But when they arrive, the man working in the shop

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says he's not the man shown on Pete's paperwork.

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-Is this your photograph?

-No, it's my one - other one.

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No is my one.

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He's accepted initially the photograph is him,

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although I think when he's realised what's about to come

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-he's then retracted that.

-No, sir, this one is not mine.

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You're saying it's not you now?

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The Pennines - high moorland dividing northern England.

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Back in 2012, these quiet roads

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were arteries for the trafficking of drugs between

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two organised crime gangs on either side of the country.

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It was drugs. It was a lot of drugs.

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There was a lot of money changing hands.

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The trade centred on Liverpool on the west coast,

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and Hartlepool on the east.

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For years, police in both areas struggled to find the ringleader.

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But when surveillance officers staked out an Italian restaurant

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in Wetherby in West Yorkshire in September 2012,

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they were able to identify the Mr Big of the operation.

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It was this man, Ian Stanton, who was running the show.

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His Merseyside gang was peddling drugs to a huge area,

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from the Midlands all the way up to Scotland.

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In the north-east we're just one element of his operations.

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From the vast telephone analysis we did,

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he was sending couriers on a daily basis

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to different parts of the country.

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With Stanton and other gang members identified,

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police in the north-east were able to seize huge quantities of drugs

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and cash in seven different operations.

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But it seemed to make little difference.

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They had immense resilience because they had so much money,

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so many drugs.

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It didn't seem to matter what we did or what drugs we took out,

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they had the ability to keep going.

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By now, Ian Stanton was one of the UK's biggest drug dealers.

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The National Crime Agency,

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who lead the UK's fight against serious and organised crime,

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were keen to take him down.

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This surveillance officer was part of the operation.

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He was a nationwide criminal.

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Not just nationwide - internationally, as well.

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He had links to the north-east.

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He travelled to London frequently.

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So, basically, borders held no bounds for him.

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Then in May 2013 came a major breakthrough.

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In a shipping container of frozen beef at Tilbury Docks in Essex,

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officers working for the port uncovered 400 kilos of cocaine

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hidden in 16 holdalls.

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It had a street value of £71 million.

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We've gathered evidence before,

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but we've never had a seizure of such a large amount.

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400 kilos of cocaine is very significant.

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Obviously to flood the streets with that amount of commodity would cause

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some serious harm to local communities.

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It was one of the biggest drugs hauls ever seen in the UK

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and it gave officers the opportunity to plan a daring sting,

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hoping to catch Stanton and his gang red-handed.

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In West Yorkshire, a two-man team are out to find and arrest foreign offenders.

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It's 11 o'clock on a Monday night, and PCs Tom Allen and Dave Lockwood

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are setting off in search of a man who is very difficult to find.

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So tonight we're going to be looking for a lad

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who we've been looking for for probably a couple of months now.

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He's got loads and loads of addresses in Leeds

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and I've been working my way through them.

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And, in truth, it's been hard work because he moves around so much.

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The team head towards Leeds and the last-known address for the man

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they're looking for.

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Ladislav Danco is accused of four offences,

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including theft and burglary,

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back home in the Czech Republic.

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He's wanted by the Czech authorities for

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"theft from a shop, burglary, damage to motor vehicle

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"and section five of the Public Order Act."

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But the man they're after has made a basic mistake.

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It's a stroke of luck, really.

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This gentleman has lost his ID, lost his passport

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and a number of other ID within the Leeds area,

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so he's contacted the police to report that missing.

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In doing that, it's given us a new address,

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which has saved me a lot of time.

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There's a contradiction there. There's a guy wanted.

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He's tried to remain at large by changing his address frequently,

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but after a period of time there

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becomes that normalisation where

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they believe that they're no longer wanted,

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there's no-one looking for them,

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and they try to assimilate into society.

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And it's quite a natural, normal thing to do to,

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to report your passport missing at a police station.

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He was clearly unaware that by doing that he was just introducing himself

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to law enforcement to say, "Here I am."

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When Dave and Tom arrive at the new address,

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at first there's no sign of the man wanted in the Czech Republic.

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Young kid having his tea.

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KNOCK AT DOOR

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I think he's eating a tub of ice cream.

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-Hello, love.

-Hello.

-Hello, it's the police.

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Are you OK? Am I OK to come in and talk with you?

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-Yeah.

-OK. Do you speak good English?

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OK. What nationality are you, please?

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-Me?

-Yeah.

-Czech Republic.

-Czech Republic.

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Is there anybody else in the house?

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Yeah, my stepdad.

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-What he's called?

-Ladislav.

-Ladislav.

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Can you ask him to come down, please, so I can talk to you all?

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-Would that be OK? Hello, Ladislav.

-Are you OK?

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-OK.

-Do you speak good English?

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Ladislav clearly hasn't been expecting visitors,

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and it's obvious he speaks little English.

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I'm going to get a police interpreter on the phone, OK?

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-And then we'll talk to you.

-I'll just go upstairs with you.

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Whilst Ladislav Danco gets dressed,

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Dave calls an interpreter who will explain the charges.

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I will be arresting this male and I need to use yourself to explain

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to him what's happening,

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so he'll know what I'm arresting him for,

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and obviously if he's got any medical conditions or anything

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before we leave the house.

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Ladislav, come and take a seat, please.

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-Yeah, yeah.

-On here I have the interpreter. So take a seat.

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-Do you just want to make sure you can understand her?

-Hello.

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You can understand her? If you can explain to him the reason I'm here

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is there's a European arrest warrant being issued for him

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by the Czech authorities.

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The man's partner is anxious.

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She wants to know where he will be taken.

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He'll be going to court tomorrow in London, OK?

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OK, say again, please. Tomorrow is London court?

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Yes, yes. There's two courts tomorrow, 10am and 2pm.

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We always aim to get them there for ten, OK?

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If, for any reason, they're really busy tomorrow,

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it may get pushed on to 2pm.

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But, as it stands, I aim to get him there ready at court for 10am.

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If there's nothing else, we're going to be leaving now, OK?

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All right. Come with me, fella.

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You got it?

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-Right. Just put your hands out.

-Sorry.

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You're OK.

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Just... OK? Are they all right?

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Ladislav Danco will be taken to a custody suite in Leeds,

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where his identity will be checked and confirmed.

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Two thumbs.

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Tomorrow morning, he will be taken to Westminster Magistrates' Court.

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The fact that he could be sent home

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to face trial for four different offences seems to be sinking in.

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It's the end of a long shift,

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and time for Dave and Tom to tackle the paperwork

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to start the extradition process.

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It's likely that Ladislav Danco will stay in this country

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for several more months until that is complete.

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For now, the authorities will be keeping a close eye on him.

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Tomorrow's probably going to be 500 to £1,500 to get bail.

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On top of that, he will have to sign on at a police station,

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probably three times a week.

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He will probably have a curfew at home and he will get a tag.

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Kingpin Ian Stanton ran a drug-dealing empire from Merseyside,

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doing business with crime gangs across the country.

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In 2012, Cleveland Police had already seized large quantities

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of the cocaine and amphetamine

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supplied to dealers in the north-east,

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but the gang seemed unstoppable.

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If they lost a kilo of cocaine it didn't really seem to make

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that much difference to them.

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They had the money and the means to get a resupply.

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The National Crime Agency launched an investigation into Ian Stanton

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and his gang. This surveillance officer was involved.

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He was a nationwide criminal.

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In fact, not just a nationwide - internationally as well.

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Borders held no bounds for him.

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The investigation made a major breakthrough

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when a huge quantity of cocaine was discovered hidden

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in a shipment of beef at Tilbury Docks in Essex.

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Port authority opened up the back of the container and found within it,

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piled up high, just at the front where you open the doors,

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black holdalls - large black holdalls.

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Within the large black holdalls were kilo-sized shrink-wrapped packages.

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Inside the frozen meat container were 400 kilos of drugs

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destined for the north-west.

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We couldn't believe how much commodity actually was within

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the container, to be honest.

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We did tests on the drugs and we identified that it was cocaine,

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79% pure, a street value of approximately 70 million.

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At the NCA, officers devised a plan to catch dealers red-handed.

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They replaced the cocaine with dummy packages

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and watched to see who would collect them.

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We ended up basically dummying the load,

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changing the drugs for an innocuous substance.

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The lorry of frozen beef with the dummy drugs on board was followed

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the 250 miles from Tilbury to Wigan.

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Surveillance officers looked on as one of the crew collected the drugs.

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It didn't take him long to discover the switch

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and call the rest of his gang to a crisis meeting,

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all under the watchful gaze of the NCA surveillance team.

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We covered a meeting on the Thursday of the 16th of May in Aintree

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where five individuals had a meeting to discuss the loss of commodity,

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as in, they didn't know where the cocaine had gone.

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The meeting was headed by Ian Stanton

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and they were discussing how they could recover the drugs.

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But with the massive haul of drugs seized and the police on his trail,

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Stanton decided it was time to leave the country,

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and although he was fleeing the UK,

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he'd still continue to run his empire from abroad.

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He was very much in control on a daily basis.

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He would send orders out to those beneath him,

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he constantly wanted reassuring that his orders were being carried out.

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He wanted to know who had received what drugs,

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what money they'd collected in.

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It seemed likely that Stanton was running things from somewhere

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in the Netherlands where he was known to have contacts.

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Six months later, a chance encounter with undercover police

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in Rotterdam would blow his cover.

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Thinking they were tackling a small-time drugs dealer,

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the officers drove to the house in the north of the city

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where they believed ecstasy was being dealt.

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Coming up...

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Dutch cops come face-to-face with Merseyside's most wanted.

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In Hounslow, Pete Rance and his team of detectives are getting ready to

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arrest a man accused of a long list of crimes committed in India.

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During widespread rioting in Gujarat back in 2002,

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Samir Patel is accused of burning three people to death

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as well as arson and rioting.

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He got a visa... Legitimately obtained a visa

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to come to the United Kingdom in 2005

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but it was only a short-term visa

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and what happened was he didn't go back, he disappeared into the ether.

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He got arrested a few years ago for shoplifting

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in the United Kingdom and provided a different date of birth

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with just the name Samir Patel,

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which in itself is quite a common name,

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so that didn't lead to us being able to locate or find him

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at that particular time.

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But further work that's been done led us to believe that

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the Samir Patel that did get arrested for shoplifting

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back in 2013 was in fact the person that was wanted in India.

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The team have tracked Patel down to a newsagents in Hounslow,

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West London. Posing as a customer, Pete pops into the shop

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to check if he's there.

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And our man's serving. He soon returns with good news.

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Right, everyone ready? Let's go.

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It's time to make the arrest.

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But first the team must confirm his identity.

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My name's Pete Rance, I'm a detective sergeant with the Metropolitan Police.

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-Can we just ask you your name, please?

-Patel.

-And your first name?

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S Patel. S Patel.

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S. What's the S stand for?

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-Sam Patel. Sam Patel.

-Sam?

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Sam. Have you got any middle names?

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-Yeah.

-What's your middle name?

-Samir Patel. Samir Patel.

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And do you have a middle...? A middle name in the middle?

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-S V Patel. S V Patel.

-Asri?

-Samir V Patel.

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-V? What does the V stand for? Vinubhai.

-Vinubhai.

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'It helps a great deal if the person that you've got before you'

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actually acknowledges and accepts that they're the person

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wanted in that jurisdiction because then the issue's taken away

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from the court, we can provide the evidence that they have consent...

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That they have acknowledged that they're the person that's wanted.

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Is that you when you were younger?

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-No, sir.

-It is you?

-I think so.

-You think?

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-Yes.

-It is you, yeah?

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At first, the man agrees that

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he is the man in the photograph Pete shows him.

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And this is you when you made an application for a visa to come to

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-the United Kingdom?

-No.

-Same person.

-No.

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-Samir Vinubhai.

-But then he changes his story.

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-Yeah?

-I'm... I don't think so.

-No, this is you, though, yeah?

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-This is your photograph.

-No, is my one is the other one.

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-No, sir, this one is not mine.

-You're saying it's not you, now?

-No.

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Pete perseveres, and a new line of questioning seems to help.

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What's your father's name?

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-Vinubhai.

-Vinubhai.

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So, father's name is Vinubhai. What's your mother's name?

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-Vimlaben.

-Vimlaben.

-Yeah.

-Yeah? So this is you.

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The crime was an old photo and obviously in the 14 years plus

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that have passed, his appearance had changed.

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I was absolutely confident that the person that I had before me was

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in fact that the person that was wanted back in India.

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-You said this is you.

-No, sir, this one is not mine.

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Patel seems intent on denying he's the man on the application for

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a visa that's now expired until Pete reveals he's there to arrest him

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for a long list of very serious crimes.

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You're accused of murder by setting on fire Kadarbhai Ismailbhai Vora.

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You're wanted for murder by setting on fire Aaiyeshaben Abdulbhai.

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And you're wanted for murder by setting on fire Nuriben Gafurbhai.

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OK? You're under arrest on the warrant.

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You do not have to say anything.

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Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

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Do you understand?

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You're under arrest.

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I'm just going to put these on you, OK, until we go to

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a police station and we can take them off, OK?

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OK, sir.

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-I'm nothing what I was.

-It's the same people. The same people.

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OK, we're going to take you to a central London police station,

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OK, and then you'll be put before a court this afternoon.

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It went as well as I hoped it would actually because he'd initially

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given us the name Samir Vinubhai Patel,

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which is the name on the warrant.

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He's accepted initially that the photograph

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of the requested person is him, although I think when he's realised

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what's about to come he's then retracted

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and said that the second photograph isn't him.

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Samir Patel is taken into custody at Charing Cross Police Station.

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Tomorrow, the man accused of three horrific murders will be put before

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a judge who will rule on his extradition to India.

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At Tilbury Docks in Essex in May 2013,

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a routine search uncovered one of the biggest hauls of drugs

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to be smuggled into the UK -

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£70 million worth of cocaine hidden in a shipping container

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full of frozen beef.

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We couldn't believe how much commodity was actually within

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the container, to the honest.

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We did tests on the drugs and we identified

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that it was cocaine, 79% pure.

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Heading up the gang tasked with recovering the drugs

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was Ian Stanton.

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But when investigators began to close in, he went on the run.

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Six months later, undercover officers in the Netherlands

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went to investigate an address in Rotterdam.

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They'd been tipped off that small quantities of drugs

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were being sold from the house.

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What they didn't realise was that

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one of the UK's most wanted fugitives was hiding inside.

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Upstairs, Stanton was hiding.

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With the cuffs on the fugitive, they searched the house.

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Intelligence officers set about establishing who the man

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they'd arrested was.

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Stanton was using a false passport but checks on his documents

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and fingerprints soon identified him.

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We then took contact with the English police through Interpol

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and they said, well, Stanton is one of their most wanted criminals

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in England and this is his picture.

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At the NCA, the surveillance team who'd helped track him

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were delighted that Ian Stanton,

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one of Merseyside's most notorious drug barons,

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was to be returned to the UK to face justice.

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He was actually extradited back to the UK

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on the 18th December 2013 and that was a good day for the team.

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We sent a member of our staff down to arrest him,

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brought him back to the north-west area.

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The team were really pleased because obviously it's sending a message

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out to the public that basically no matter where you go,

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you've got no way to hide and we will look for you,

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we will find you and we will bring you back.

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Ladislav Danco - wanted for offences including theft and burglary,

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is currently on bail while he appeals against his extradition.

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Samir Patel appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in August 2016.

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He consented to his extradition and is now in India.

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And Merseyside's most wanted, Ian Stanton,

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was in November 2013 sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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He was jailed for a further 16 years in June 2015 for his part in

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another multi-million pound drugs conspiracy.

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