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A gangster who drove an expensive car, splashed out on large cash purchases and wore a diamond encrusted Rolex watch must pay back more than £2.5m of his ill-gotten gains.

Asim Tufail’s criminal empire came crashing down in the departure lounge of Terminal one at Manchester Airport , as he and his son Junnaid were arrested as they were set to fly out to Dubai.

The pair were ‘in it together’ as drug dealers and gun runners, prosecutors said. On the day of the arrest at Ringway, Asim was wearing a diamond encrusted Rolex worth £70,000, with his son wearing a £11,000 Rolex.

Asim, 52, from Northenden, drove an expensive car and made 'large cash purchases', Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court heard previously. His crimes were exposed following the infiltration of the En

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