Dr. Xanthe Weston

Drugs, guns, all these trades, alcohol, tobacco, they're all international.

So all these networks are working in different places in the world.

It's been suggested to me that this could be a Russian group

that are doing this.

Is it Russian?

I don't know.

It could be anyone, right?

Well, that's interesting that we managed to get an arrest warrant in Iraq.

Yes.

But what happens with these gangs, though, the problem is if one person is arrested or one piece is taken out of play, as it were, then that void is filled pretty quickly.

So, you know, these gangs are not going away.

Yeah, absolutely.

We've seen something like over the last two, three weeks, we've seen at least 15 that have been all connected to this, all the hospitality.

And it seems to be around that illicit alcohol trade.

And so, yes, somebody has stepped into that void and is really up to the ante in the last few weeks.

Which I get, right?

right?

But they're feeding organised crime.

And these are the same people who are involved in people smuggling and sex trafficking and all these other things that we would go, oh, that's awful.

Yeah, I don't want to support that.