"Pictured: Dung Phu Vu<br /> Re: The ringleaders of a Vietnamese crime gang have been jailed after police seized 2.5 tonnes of cannabis worth about £6m in raids across south Wales.<br /> A total of 21 people have been sentenced in a case going back to 2017 after dozens of cannabis factories were uncovered across the region and beyond.<br /> One of the defendants initially claimed to be 14 years old, but police proved he was actually aged 26.<br /> The gang leaders were sentenced at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Friday.<br /> Bang Xuan Luong, 44, was sentenced to eight years in prison. His partner, 42-year-old Vu Thi Thu Thuy, was jailed for six years and Tuan Anh Pham, 20, who was described in court as the ""IT Man"", received five years.<br /> An investigation into a cannabis factory in the Cynon Valley led officers from South Wales Police's Force Intelligence and Organised Crime Unit (FIOCU) to a string of others across south Wales, Gwent and Dyfed-Powys force areas."
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