The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang

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They used false passports to travel, booked flights they never caught, and paid for with cloned cards. Trips to Turkey were via circuitous routes. NOTW editor 'spiked paedophilia scoop on Arthur C Clarke for fear of". The Independent. 2012-07-06 . Retrieved 2023-01-21. Between 1995 and 1997, Johnson worked at the News of the World. [2] He had a notorious scoop about the Beast of Bodmin Moor at the paper. [3] Johnson later explained that there was of culture of fear at the paper and he fabricated stories under pressure from his bosses. [4] Johnson has written for publications including the News of the World, the Sunday Mirror, The Observer, Vice, The Guardian and the Liverpool Echo, and often publishes crime stories under different bylines. A former criminal from Liverpool says he is involved in negotiations with Hollywood-based production companies interested in making a film about his life.

Mr Smith, 55, started a new life in Warrington after he was released from the prison system on licence several years ago. Crime writer Graham Johnson, who studied the family, told Channel 4 News: “The Fitzgibbon crime family have been major players in organised crime for 30 or 40 years, and one of the reasons they’ve stayed at the top of their game is because they use extreme violence when necessary to protect their interests. Journalist and author Graham Johnson is Mr Smith's business partner and has been leading the negotiations. It started in Liverpool, and it’s still mainly controlled in Liverpool—but it has hooks in Amsterdam, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, South America… all the usual suspect countries. I interviewed the Amsterdam police, and the first thing they told me is that they investigate everyone—Triads, Eastern European gangs, and the Italian and Russian Mafias—but they roll their eyes when you mention the "scousers" because they're the ones they have to deal with constantly.

Ripping off the state

They can be very intimidating and are very good at getting at witnesses, which is why the police find it very difficult to build cases, and they’re extremely good drug dealers, so it’s a recipe for success as an underworld crime family”. Ripping off the state Johnson Described in parliament as an "investigative reporter supreme". [9] [ clarification needed]

Graham Johnson (born 4 May 1968) is an author and investigative journalist from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. [1] He has written for several news organisation and the since the 2000s has written both non-fiction and fiction books. His works focuses largely crime, especially organised crime. Johnson has made documentary films and appeared on television as a crime pundit. To his credit The Debt Collector is one of the most successful true crime documentaries ever made, watched over 50 million times. Graham Johnson: The police I spoke to said it’s like a global corporation with hundreds—possibly thousands—of employees in a rigid hierarchy. It’s got hundreds of millions, possibly billions of pounds if you count the asset values of the businesses they own and the drugs they trade. It was founded in 1973, and it’s still going strong now after 40 years. a b Siddle, John (2013-07-05). "The Devil struggled against demons, says author". Liverpool Echo . Retrieved 2023-01-21. year-old Christine Fitzgibbon (above, centre) is the matriarchal head of a Merseyside family whose drug connections extended round the globe.To research his debut novel, Powder Wars (2004), Johnson spent several years on and off embedded with some of Britain's most notorious gangs. [ citation needed] They had a villa in Spain bought with state handouts, while the drugs cash poured in and business was good. She was the so-called company secretary. She laundered the money and advised on how to avoid detection. They flooded Merseyside with heroin from Turkey, cocaine from South America, ecstasy from Holland – and all controlled from a double semi-detatched house in a suburb of Liverpool.