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Shoukat Yaqoob - locked up for 11 years for conspiracy to supply heroin

Shoukat Yaqoob - locked up for 11 years for conspiracy to supply heroin - worked at an insurance company call centre in Sheffield and used the company's phoneline to mastermind the multi-million pound enterprise.His calls were examined and it emerged he had been working on the orders of 28-year-old Sadakat Ali Malook, of Osgathorpe Road, Fir Vale.Malook, serving a 21-year jail term, was ordered to pay back £196,069 in six months or face a further three years in prison. Naveed Yaqoob, 23, of Barnsley Road, Fir Vale, must pay back £1,516 within a week or have 40 days added to his jail term. His brother Jamil Yaqoob, 25, of Sturton Road, Fir Vale, must pay back £220.29 or face an extra 14 days in jail.The Yaqoob brothers were arrested after police searched a house in Pitsmoor where they were storing their drugs. Bags of heroin with a street value of £100,000, along with equipment used in the mixing, packing and distribution of drugs, were discovered.Naveed was jailed for 13 years for conspiracy to supply heroin and Jamil received five years for the same offence. Two other members of the gang were jailed when the case was first at court in 2007.
Jangheer Yaqoob - another of the brothers - received seven years for supplying heroin and crack cocaine, and Christopher Dewey from Doncaster received five years for conspiracy to supply heroin.Last July a court found Shoukat Yaqoob, 27, of Earl Marshal Road, Fir Vale, had profited from the scheme to the tune of a massive £3,115,096 and he was ordered to pay back more than £97,000 or face an extra two years in jail.

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