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Jonathan Humphries & Emma O'Neill

Drug lords at top of 'The Family' cocaine and heroin empire fight to keep luxury property

Two brothers, who are part of a notorious criminal group referred to as 'The Family', are fighting to hold on to a luxury house years after they were locked up.

Turkish national Mehmet Baybasin, who is now now 59, was jailed for 30 years at Liverpool Crown Court in 2011, after a scheme which involved a Merseyside gang, looked to import vast quantities of cocaine from South America, reports the Liverpool Echo.

The court had heard that between 2008 and 2009 the organised crime group concocted a "sophisticated" plot to get a 40 tonne shipment of cocaine from Colombia to Britain.

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