A MEETING at a Bolton casino which led to police seizing drugs with a street value of £5 million will be shown on a TV programme featuring the fight against major crime in the North-west.
The meeting, which was dubbed the "£5 million kiss" during court proceedings, led to Turkish born Bolton man Huseyin Ege being jailed for 25 years for his part in plotting to supply heroin.
It will feature as part of an ITV series called Mean Streets which is looking at the history of organised crime in the North West of England and the way police methods have developed in a bid to trap criminals through the years.
Police arrested Ege and three other men shortly after he was captured on security cameras at the Stanley Casino in Bolton town centre in December 1997.
The "kiss", showing an embrace between between Ege and another man Grzegorz Kolton, was a key piece of evidence linking Ege in the drugs operation.
The consignment of drugs was cleverly concealed inside a Polish registered Ford Scorpio brought into England via the Balkans and Turkey.
During the court case Judge Anthony Hammond said that the seizure was "the tip of the iceberg" in a vile trade of heroin trafficking.
The episode featuring the Bolton case is due to be shown on Granada on Monday August 7.
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