{"id":303937,"date":"2025-07-30T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303937\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:53:14","slug":"cannabis-farm-mastermind-who-posed-as-a-birmingham-property-mogul-is-jailed-for-more-than-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303937\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis farm mastermind who posed as a Birmingham property mogul is jailed for more than six years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The head of an organised crime group<\/a> who posed as a property developer to control a multi-million pound network of cannabis factories has been jailed for more than six years.<\/p>\n

Roman Le, 30, from Birmingham<\/a>, headed a gang who operated at least eight farms and commercial properties across the Midlands<\/a>, North West and north Lincolnshire, as well as a storage facility to house both equipment and harvested cannabis.<\/p>\n

The kingpin would source the properties by buying or renting them, and in some cases, would place scaffolding around the buildings to make it look like work was taking place.<\/p>\n

\"RomanRoman Le<\/p>\n

Lee worked with fellow gang members, Yihao Feng, aged 29, from Manchester, and David Qayumi, aged 36, also from Birmingham, to source and operate the properties.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The factories were staffed by illegal migrants.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe ‘Big Bamboo’ nightclub was one of the locations used in the operation<\/p>\n

Among the properties was the ‘Big Bamboo’ nightclub in Coventry, which was raided by NCA and West Midlands Police officers in October 2020.<\/p>\n

In the raid, officers found more than 1,500 plants worth more than \u00a31 million spread over three floors.<\/p>\n

\"CannabisCannabis plants were also found The Queens Head in Birmingham <\/p>\n

Other locations include The Queens Head, a former public house in Birmingham, and an old hotel in Lancashire. Overall, the farms were found to be capable of making millions of pounds worth of cannabis.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Queens Head was also used<\/p>\n

Lee was arrested at his home, an apartment in Essex Street, Birmingham, on November 4, 2020, which he shared with his girlfriend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both Feng and Qayumi pleaded guilty to conspiring to produce cannabis; however, Le denied the charge, claiming he was a ‘legitimate businessman’ who had no knowledge that the properties he had an interest in were being used to produce cannabis.<\/p>\n

\"YihaoYihao Feng, aka Tony, from Manchester<\/p>\n

Following an eight-day trial at Birmingham Crown Court, Le was found guilty of the offences and was sentenced to six years and two months today (July 30).<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Zaki Qayumi, aka Zacky, from Plumstead Road, Birmingham<\/p>\n

On July 4, Feng and Qayumi were handed prison sentences totalling six and a half years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head of an organised crime group who posed as a property developer to control a multi-million pound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-303937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114942286983125305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}