Crime bosses helped 'Premier League' cocaine kingpin and one of country's most wanted evade with dodgy passports
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTwo crime bosses and members of a gang who supplied fraudulent passports - including to 'Premier League' cocaine kingpin Michael Moogan - have been convicted following an investigation spanning five years.
Anthony Beard, 61, and Christopher Zietek, 67, were caught providing fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) to organised criminals in a covert sting.
Members of the criminal underworld paid between £5,0000 and £15,000 for the highly sought-after documents, which were issued authentically but applied for using false information. READ MORE: Drugs baron who flooded UK with cocaine entered crime at 'Premier League level' and became one of the country's most wanted They were supplied to a number of high-profile offenders including the UK's former most wanted fugitive Michael Moogan.
Drugs baron Moogan, 37, has been described as 'a major figure in international drug dealing' and who a judge said was operating at 'Premier League level' when he flooded the UK with 62 kilos of cocaine.
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