80-year-old lottery winner jailed in £288m counterfeit-drug network
TL;DR
Four men, including an 80-year-old lottery winner, were jailed for almost 50 years after police exposed an ‘industrial-scale’ operation in Wigan to manufacture and distribute counterfeit diazepam; the gang used premises behind the leader’s home and a rented shipping container to churn out tens of thousands of tablets per hour, with firearms seized and the drugs valued at about £288 million on the street.
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