Dad used contacts in Colombia to flood UK with tens of millions of pounds of drugs
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA dad exploited an international network of criminal contacts based in countries including Colombia, Brazil and Dubai to flood the UK with tens of millions of pounds of cocaine and heroin.
Graham Minards imported more than 1,300kg of class A drugs and is now beginning a lengthy jail term. Minards, who used the pseudonym “Calm Tea” was described as a “leading player nationally” and being “in the higher echelons” of organised crime.
He and his business partner Peter Bradshaw armed themselves with hand grenades and were ready to recruit "lads who blow any c***'s head off" in order to fend off serious threats after falling into large sums of debt, Liverpool Echo reports.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how the two men used encrypted communications platform EncroChat to organise their "very large scale and sophisticated nationwide drugs supply business".
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