Sign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city A cocaine and cannabis dealer from Salford - a top-ranking member of an organised crime group police said supplied drugs on a 'commercial scale' into the north west - has been locked up. 'Main player' Shaheed Virmani, from Swinton, supplied 'large amounts' to the gang's Spain-based leader, Usman Akhter, and also received drugs back from him.
Akhter - who lived a life of luxury in a Marbella villa called 'Los Flamingos' - 'controlled a sophisticated network bringing hundreds of kilos of cocaine and cannabis into the region', police said.
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