A drugs boss set up 'shops' on the dark web named Vanilla Surf, Staxx and GovUK to peddle vast quantities of cocaine across England the rest of Europe.
Andrew Moores, 37, who lived in a luxury Manchester city centre apartment, played a leading role in a gang which trafficked drugs worth millions including cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine, amphetamine and cannabis via the internet using encrypted EncroChat mobile phones.
The Tameside and Stockport based outfit, which included Moores' book-keeper Paul Gregory, 39, and distributor Austin 'Ozzy' Beckett, 31, 'operated with virtual anonymity', a court heard.
