Mark Quinn was linked to more than £10m of amphetamine following a series of cross-border raids.
A judge heard how detectives had swooped at Aldergrange care home in Liverpool which had been used to prepare and bulk out the drugs for trafficking.The 58-year-old had effectively been on the run for seven years, becoming one of the UK's most wanted men before being tracked to Holland in October 2021.
Lord Beckett told him:"This was drug dealing on a grand scale aggravated by a connection with serious and organised"Your involvement was associated with seizures of large quantities of amphetamine on four occasions. The judge added some aspects of the gang's sophisticated operation were"rarely encountered by the police".He had been a target of the Operation Kapuas police probe in 2013 investigating a major crime gang.
The authorities even used a van with his face plastered on the side in Spain's Costa del Sol in a bid to trace him.His lawyer said Quinn had also been involved in the building trade and had been part of a project to transform the nursing home into luxury flats.
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