A career criminal is returning to jail after being convicted of drug offences for a fourth time, following a National Crime Agency investigation.
Alam Zeb Khan, 49, of Birmingham, admitted peddling heroin and was sentenced (4 April) at the city’s crown court to eight years and one month imprisonment.
As part of an investigation into the heroin supply, NCA officers raided a flat on 4 October 2023 in Small Heath, Birmingham, after Khan entered it carrying a brown shopping bag.
Inside were two heroin users and Khan, whose shopping bag had just shy of two kilos of heroin in it.
A search uncovered a further seven kilos of heroin hidden across the flat.
The drugs would have had a potential street value of £1.5 million.
Khan’s first conviction was three decades ago when he was convicted of possession of heroin with intent to supply.
In 2000, he was convicted of heroin smuggling and sentenced to 12 years.
After serving that sentence, he returned to offending again and was jailed for seven years in 2012 for a cocaine supply plot.
Khan, together with his family and their associates, was also ordered to surrender a £17 million property portfolio in 2020.
An eight-year NCA investigation established that the properties were acquired using the proceeds of crime, including heroin trafficking and money laundering.
