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The head of one of the country's biggest drug dealing gangs who built a huge property empire and lived a life of luxury in Cheshire has been jailed after his operation was brought down.

Gregory Bell, 43, has been likened to a CEO due to his role at the top of the illicit organisation which 'operated like a business', dealing multiple kilos of cocaine, heroin, MDMA, amphetamines and cannabis on a daily basis.

Bell 'managed logistics, authorised deals, and collected profits' but 'distanced himself from the physical handling of drugs' which, according to police, were distributed on an 'industrial scale.'

He used a number of aliases on the encrypted Encrochat network, later smashed by police, as he dished out orders and managed a network of safe houses and couriers to co-or

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