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Article: 'Thrill-seeking rich kid' who ran gun-running gang jailed for 20 years

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August 2, 2008
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A BUSINESSMAN who helped organise the biggest gun-running gang ever uncovered in Britain was jailed for 20 years yesterday.

Kaleem Akhtar, 29, teamed up with the former cage-fighter Paul Wilson, the "gangster" Mudassar Ali and four others to sell an "assassin's armoury" to the underworld. Akhtar, described as a "thrill-seeking rich kid", was said to be driven by a "desire for street cred and glory".

They flooded the criminal underworld with handguns, silencers and bullets, packaged into kits and sold at 1,700 a time.

The kits, described as "ballistic bling", became a status symbol favoured by violent street gangs and used in crimes in Manchester,

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