Dean Cooper, 51, supplied £3.68m of cocaine, £900,000 of heroin and other drugs, including ketamine, amphetamine and 50kg of cannabis resin in his major criminal operation.
He was finally brought to justice thanks to Operation Venetic, a investigation police that cracked supposedly secure communications between criminals on the EncroChat network.
Cooper, who flooded Manchester with the drugs, is the brought to justice.
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