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Jailed EncroChat gangster ordered to hand over Rolexes, Dubai gold, house and cars

A judge has also ordered kingpin Thomas Maher to pay back £629,159.15 in cash as well as giving up lorries, jewellery, artwork and gold ingots.

Daily Record

Kinahan smuggler told to pay €700,000 fine or face extra jail time

Offaly-born Thomas Maher is already serving a 14-year jail term after he admitted drugs and money laundering offences and now an English judge has hit him with a so-called confiscation order – which is a proceeds of crime fine

Dublin Live

EncroChat kingpin has to give up his home, Rolexes and Dubai gold

The haulage boss is on a ticking clock to pay back money or face an extra six years in jail

Liverpool Echo

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Thieving administrator, GMP copper and live stream paedophile amongst those jailed last week in Greater Manchester

A major drugs boss who was able to obtain a Covid grant was also put behind bars

Manchester Evening News

Drugs boss 'Green Champ' involved in crime on 'vast' scale was handed Covid loan by government

Lee Walsh has been jailed for 14 years

Manchester Evening News

Liverpool gangland's love of 'pineapples'

Members of the criminal underworld have been willing to use military grade weaponry in the city

Liverpool Echo

Met PC’s husband jailed for selling drugs branded with luxury Hublot watch logo

PC Rasvinder Agalliu, a former beauty queen, was sacked by the Met after the arrest of her husband and discovery of cocaine at their home

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Faces of Liverpool EncroChat dealers jailed this year

From "Scarface Anfield" to "Calm Tea" these are some of the dealers taken off the streets this year

Liverpool Echo

Leader of 'Billy Whizz' gang with connections to Dubai, India and Iran made £700,000

OCG moved hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of amphetamine branded with pictures of Beano character Billy Whizz

Liverpool Echo

His respectable career went down the pan - now he's in jail

'GingerSpeaker', as he was known, is now behind bars

Manchester Evening News

EncroChat crook 'ItchyTrain' linked to Spanish villas, gun thugs and kilos of heroin

Jack Wymer boasted of earning up to £10,000 a day selling wholesale quantities of cannabis

Liverpool Echo

Major player in drugs gang brought down after police find Kinder Egg

Four members of the gang have now been jailed for almost 50 years between them

Manchester Evening News

Boss of £1m drug gang had secret lab and holiday park chemicals stash

Drugs boss Terence Earle gave evidence from the witness box before he was jailed for 16-and-a-half years

Liverpool Echo

Strangeways protester, 'seasoned' drug dealer and stalker: The criminals put behind bars

Joe Outlaw, who staged a 12 hour rooftop protest at HMP Manchester, was one of those sentenced

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Liverpool Echo

Drug trafficker 'Stocky Giant' armed himself with grenades in multi-million pound plot

EncroChat messages revealed business partner's links to criminals in Colombia, Brazil and Dubai

Liverpool Echo

Misconduct probe of crime agency chief split into two enquiries

Nikki Holland, former Merseyside Police officer, faces allegations of data protection breaches, bullying and misuse of public funds

Liverpool Echo

Sky box helped bring down EncroChat broker

Dad plotted Mersey Tunnel smuggling scheme during lockdown and sourced drugs for 'Mr Kipling'

Liverpool Echo

Gangland 'chaos' as EncroChat arrests lead to 'instability' in underworld

Senior officers are considering whether "chaotic individuals" on the streets are looking to "fill the gaps"

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Manchester Evening News

The Manchester brothers locked up after their criminal racket comes crashing down

Owen and Niall Trainor have both been jailed

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat dad 'WoodenJay' caught after sending pictures of new baby

William Davidson and Steven Gorry were involved in the supply of 108kg of cocaine and 14kg of heroin

Manchester Evening News

The 24 most wanted men in the UK - who the public are warned not to approach

The National Crime Agency has warned people not to approach these men if they see them

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat drug runner 'Lemonlager' caught after taking selfies

Jan Luke Carmichael worked mainly as a courier but also dealt drugs in his own right

Liverpool Echo

Our Liverpool: the stories to read before the weekend

Welcome to Our Liverpool - the ECHO's twice-daily briefing on our most important stories

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat car dealer boasted he could make £30k a week with 'Netflix' drug operation

Richard Weild had a watch and clothing collection worth at least £70k

Evening Standard

‘Chadwell Cartel’ drug dealers who aspired to be next Ronnie and Reggie Kray jailed for 25 years

Two Essex men aspired to be like the Kray twin brother gangsters notorious in the 1950s

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