 Police intelligence also put him at the centre of a criminal network involved in protection rackets at nightclubs and pubs.A police investigation into The Hunt Syndicate, codenamed Operation Tiberius, concluded that it had managed to evade prosecution through a mixture of utilising corrupt police contacts and the intimidation of witnesses.The crime gang were uncovered by the crime squad in Newham, East London in 2006, when a scrapyard in the Docklands area of East London was searched for stolen metal.