Gang organised eye watering cocaine trade on Excel spreadsheets
They shifted £8m of cocaine, heroin and cannabis in just two months
15:58, 19 APR 2021
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A brazen gang shifted such eye-watering amounts of drugs they had to document their trade on spreadsheets. The Liverpool-based crew moved 170kg of cocaine, 11kg of heroin and 290kg of cannabis, worth more than £8m in total, in the space of just two months. The crooks were so confident their EncroChat encrypted phones were impenetrable , they abandoned traditional tick lists in favour of Microsoft Excel.
Liverpool Crown Court today heard how their business grew to such a scale that professionalism was needed and records had to be kept - before it all came crashing down in police raids on September 11 last year.
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Ryan Mulcahy weighing in for a boxing match.
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A former boxing champion became involved in a colossal cannabis conspiracy after a knee injury ended his sporting dreams.