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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jonathan Humphries

'Premier League' cocaine kingpin fled the country after Dutch 'cartel café' bugged

A "Premier League" cocaine kingpin from Liverpool fled the country after a café used as a base by international drugs brokers was bugged by Dutch police.

Former Crimestoppers 'most wanted' fugitive Michael Moogan, 37, today became the last British man sentenced in connection with a sting operation at the Café de Ketel in Rotterdam. The 'café' was the haunt of the shadowy 'Çamdere brothers', Turkish nationals who brokered major international drug deals.

A court heard today how the premises was not open to the public and only "known faces" could gain access via an intercom system. The café featured a secure inner area where some of Europe's highest level drugs traffickers could arrange to source huge quantities of Class A drugs from South American cartels.

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