Polo-loving drug lord's double life catches up with him
2 hours ago Share Save Sajid Iqbal & Ashitha Nagesh BBC News BBC On the surface, Muhammed Asif Hafeez was an upstanding individual. A global businessman and ambassador of a prestigious London polo club, he rubbed shoulders with the British elite, including members of the Royal Family. He also regularly passed on detailed information to the authorities in the UK and Middle East that, in some cases, led to the interception of huge shipments of drugs. He was motivated, he said, simply by what he saw as his "moral obligation to curb and highlight criminal activities". At least, that is what he would have had people think. In reality, Hafeez was himself what US officials described as "one of the world's most prolific drug traffickers". From his residence in the UK, he was the puppet-master of a vast drugs empire, supplying many tonnes of heroin, methamphetamine and hashish from bases in Pakistan and India that were distributed across the world. The gangs he infor...