Twelve Jailed in Major Swansea Drug Conspiracy Bust

Twelve men have been handed substantial prison sentences following a complex investigation into an organised crime group based in Swansea. 🚔👮‍♂️

Operation Shelduck, conducted by the Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot Organised Crime Team, uncovered a large-scale conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs including cocaine, MDMA, cannabis and ketamine.

Abdul Mozid, identified as the principal member of the group, was directing drug supply not only in Swansea but also across Pyle, Cardiff, Carmarthen and Bristol.

The organised crime group used encrypted chat platforms including Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp and Snapchat in an attempt to evade law enforcement, but investigators successfully attributed usernames to nine men involved in the operation.

Sentences handed down in April 2025:

• Abdul Mozid – 10 years, eight months’ imprisonment
• Mohammed Hanif Miah – 10 years, six months’ imprisonment
• Ruhel Chowdhury – nine years’ imprisonment
• Moinul Islam – seven years’ imprisonment
• Mohammed Robbani – four years, five months’ imprisonment
• Diamant Halili – four years, nine months’ imprisonment
• Levi Edwards – three years, nine months’ imprisonment
• Bryan Clarke – three years, nine months’ imprisonment
• Mohammed Rahman – three years, nine months’ imprisonment
• Jamshed Khan – three years’ imprisonment
• Mohammed Jubair Uddin – four years’ imprisonment
• Abul Hushain – six years, five months’ imprisonment and 62-month driving ban

During a warrant at a ‘safe house’ on Finsbury Terrace in Brynmill, Swansea, authorities seized:

• Over £45,000 cash
• £44,000 cash restrained (POCA)
• £12,000 cryptocurrency restrained (POCA)
• 6.2 kilograms of cocaine
• 31.5 grams of crack cocaine
• 228 grams of MDMA powder
• 970 MDMA tablets
• 2.3 kilograms of ketamine
• 8 kilograms of cannabis
• 2.4 kilograms of mixing agent

Detective Sergeant Ian Foster said: “Operation Shelduck has seen a deeply complex investigation into a group of men who cared about nothing other than profiting from the supply of drugs into our communities. Like many others before them who have thought similarly, this has not paid off for them, and they are now embarking on significant terms in prison.”

DS Foster acknowledged the collaborative effort behind the operation, particularly highlighting “the work of the officer in case, PC Owen Smith, who was instrumental in securing these sentences for all those involved in this OCG.”