Border Force officer charged after 25kg of heroin found at Birmingham Airport

A Border Force officer has been charged with conspiring to import class A drugs after 25kg of heroin was found in a suitcase.

Syed Shah, 39, of Hodge Hill, was arrested at Birmingham Airport on 24 October and will appear at a court in the city today.

The National Crime Agency said the drugs were in a case belonging to Zahida Perveen, 67, from Manchester, who had just arrived on a flight from Pakistan.

Perveen has also been charged with conspiracy to import class A drugs, as has a third person - Shahid Butt, 52, from Saltley in Birmingham.

Butt and Shah are also facing money laundering charges.

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Two corrupt Border Force officers were jailed in separate cases last year.

One allowed a car carrying 15kg of drugs through Portsmouth ferry terminal and the other was caught trying to sell thousands of ecstasy tablets.

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