Video: British drug lord arrested after being extradited from Switzerland | Daily Mail Online

A British drug lord who plotted the murder of a gangland rival from his luxury base in Dubai was convicted today after one of the biggest EncroChat investigations in history. James Harding, 34, and his 'loyal right-hand man' Jayes Kharouti, 39, ran a vast criminal empire which made £5million in profits from importing drugs over 10 weeks in 2020 alone. They tried to recruit a hitman to put an unnamed rival courier 'permanently out of business', arming him with a gun and ammunition for the 'full