Gang ‘exploited free movement’

A POLISH drugs gang “took advantage of free EU movement” to smuggle cannabis into Britain, a judge has said.

Darius Ulaszonek, 42, Dominik Pachocinski, 33, and Dariusz Klosinski, 41, who ran their operation from Milton Keynes, were caught with cannabis, ketamine and a small fortune.

Ulaszonek was the “principal figure” in the conspiracy, prosecutor James Brown told the court, while Pachocinski was his “trusted right-hand man”. Klosinski, meanwhile, was a lorry driver recruited to import a large consignment of cannabis for the gang before returning to Europe with cash.

Judge Michael Gledhill, at Southwark Crown Court, said: “You are three Polish men taking advantage of the free movement of people and goods in the EU.”

Ulaszonek, of Milton Keynes, was jailed for five years and four months. Pachocinski, also of Milton Keynes, was jailed for four years. And Klosinski, of no fixed abode but who lives in Poland, was jailed for 16 months.