Property Man Charged With £60m Drug Plot

A Birmingham lettings boss, accused of playing a key role in a £60m a year cannabis production plot, has appeared for the first time at City of London Magistrates’ Court.

Operation Opaque – led by the Middle Market Drug Partnership – which is made up of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police have charged twenty-two other defendants.

Andre Davies, 43, of Hathaway Road, Shirley, Solihull is charged with conspiring to produce cannabis on or before November 17, last year.

Police have identified fifty to sixty cannabis ‘farms’ capable of producing £1m on the drug annually, alleging some were let by Davies.

He was sent in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on March 18.