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Firearms investigation update: Ten guns seized and two more arrested

Two further people have been arrested and another ten guns seized as part of an ongoing National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service investigation into a network alleged to be involved in firearms supply.

At approximately 5pm on Monday 3 July officers from the joint NCA and MPS Organised Crime Partnership, supported by armed officers from Thames Valley Police, stopped a white van in a pub car park in Iver, near Slough.

They arrested the two occupants, men aged 25 and 35 from the Slough area, on suspicion of firearms offences.

A number of bags containing nine handguns was recovered from the van. A further search of a storage unit nearby yielded another handgun. The two men are now being questioned by investigators.

The operation was linked to the seizure of 79 UK-bound handguns at the Channel Tunnel terminal on 1 July.

The two men arrested following that seizure ,Polish national Janusz Michek, 59, and Czech national Denis Kolencukov, 23, were charged and appeared before Uxbridge Magistrates recently, where they were remanded in custody.

Graham Gardner, NCA Deputy Director of investigations, said:

“These new arrests are significant in the context of our wider investigation into a network we believe were heavily involved in the criminal supply of firearms to the UK.

“The latest weapons seized were of the same type found at the Channel Tunnel terminal on Saturday, and bring the total of guns seized as part of this investigation to 89.

“It goes without saying that by taking them out of circulation we, along with our partners in law enforcement have made our communities that much safer.”

 

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