designer dogs and organised crime a new investigation finds bulldogs being bred with extreme features, and sold for huge sums of money. rolling back the years in the premier league how arsenal and manchester united delivered a thriller as arsenal snatch a late win to pass another test of their title winning credentials. good morning. the north west to south east split in the weather today. in the southeast it is cold, frosty. we have fog, some slow to clear. where it does we will see sunshine. in the north west it is mild, cloudy and we have patchy rain. all the details later. it s monday the 23rd of january. our main story. pressure is growing on the former chancellor nadhim zahawi to release more details about his tax affairs it s as the bbc was told he did pay a penalty to hm revenue and customs. mr zahawi is said to be determined to stay on as conservative party chairman and the prime minister has expressed confidence in him but labour says his position is untenab
fake profile was contacted, by social media account of a man who is currently in prison serving a lengthy sentence for running a county line is a drug gang and here i was being contacted by social media account in his name and being offered dog deals privately. and we are not talking a few hundred pounds, these dogs specifically, we are talking ranging from tens of thousands to quarter of £1 million. and the question you have to ask is, i these dogs worth that amount? when you look closer at the network you realise that amongst some of the criminal faction realise that amongst some of the criminalfaction it s realise that amongst some of the criminal faction it s about the movement of money, it is about how to get criminal money within the system and move it around and launder that money. we system and move it around and launder that money. system and move it around and launder that money. we also saw in our launder that money. we also saw in your report launder that money. we also
breeders as i could so i could get closer and closer to the top of the network. and then over many weeks and months, slowly, iwas network. and then over many weeks and months, slowly, i was starting to be invited to dog deals, at one dealer s house, i managed to film some of the most extreme breeding practices, illegally cropped ears. i was offered deals of dogs worth in the tens of thousands. the criminality is there. why is it there? because there is money to be made. these gangs exist for one reason and one reason only and that is to make as much money as they can. it is about the risk and reward equation. they want very, very low risk but a massive reward, and it is easier to sell and shift dogs than it is with drugs. i was told that the way these networks, especially in the american bully world, the way they operate is very much along the same business model as running a drugs operation but it is dogs and dogs are the perfect criminal commodity because of the public appetite and b