Drug baron with lavish lifestyle jailed for 25 years after fleeing to Morocco in Bentley

John Clark ran a vast criminal enterprise from his luxury homes across Europe

A drug baron who led a luxury lifestyle before fleeing to Morocco in his Bentley Continental as his criminal empire collapsed has been jailed for 25 years.

John Clark was the ‘head of a drug dealing enterprise’ supplying drugs around Bury and ran the operation from his luxury properties in Spain and other parts of Europe.

Clark ‘enjoyed a very high level of luxury’ with ‘beautiful homes, designer clothes and expensive cars’, Bolton Crown Court heard.

John Clark fled to Morocco in a Bentley as the police closed in around him

He used some of the proceeds of his crimes to buy a £65k Range Rover Sport

The scale of the drugs empire stretched from Scotland to Merseyside, London and Lincolnshire and involved the importation of vast amounts of cocaine, heroin and amphetamines from the continent.

The 36-year-old travelled to Morocco through France and Tenerife after operations by the Greater Manchester Police Drugs Unit and Serious Organised Crime Group closed in on the Clark-led gang.

He was arrested four months after a warrant was issued and then spent 10 months in a Moroccan prison before being extradited to the UK.


Source: Mirror UK