A crew of EncroChat drug dealers who traded with figures in the Liverpool underworld ran an operation spanning the length and breadth of the UK.
The four men were snared as part of Operation Achilles, run by Greater Manchester Police (GMP), into a network of dealers in the south of Manchester. Detectives managed to identify Mark Evans, 37, as an EncroChat user with the handle 'MangyStaff'.
Evans, from Wythenshawe "mainly travelled to Liverpool" to carry out his illicit trades according to GMP, as well as London and Oxford. He was also particularly active in the Cheetham Hill and Oldham areas of Manchester.
