A gang sold fake prescription drugs worth more £20million on the dark web. It funded lavish lifestyles that they bragged about on social media - including buying bottles of £1k champagne.
The crooks sold drugs such as Xanax and other benzodiazepines and blew the money on Dom Perignon, Cristal and Bollinger Champagne. Thomas Durden, 36, Christopher Kirkby, 35, Marc Ward, 36, flashed their trips to fancy restaurants and nightclubs in posts on their Instagram pages.
Ward posted on his Instagram a picture of him smoking a cigar with the caption, "Living like a gangster!" Kirkby posted a picture of a £1,250 bottle of Crystal Rose during a visit to the upmarket Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge, west London, that saw their total bill reach £1,679 in June 2017.
