Two jailed for part in huge thefts of fuel from depots

TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LITRES STOLEN

- By DAVID POWELL Daily Post Reporter

TWO members of an organised crime group were yesterday jailed for plotting to steal fuel worth hundreds of thousands of pounds from UK depots - including on Anglesey, and in Deeside and Wrexham. They would arrange for accomplices to siphon fuel into containers at night before taking it away on trucks to be sold.

A judge said the fuel had been “sloshing” about in unsafe containers and there could have been “catastrophic” consequences if anything had gone wrong.

Mohammad Anwar, 39, and brother in-law Khalid Mohammed, 43, who was known as “Boss”, were convicted of conspiracy to steal between October 1, 2020 and April 22, 2022.

Mohammed Anwar also laundered £400,000 from proceeds.

His partner Alimar Bibi, 36, who also laundered illicit money, was found with designer clothes and handbags but claimed she had been “naive” about where the money came from, which the court accepted.

Prosecutor Ember Wong told Caernarfon Crown Court the organised crime group had stolen fuel “on a national scale” often at remote depots. It had been a sophisticated operation using multiple vehicles, cloned plates and electric pumps.