A man was caught red-handed minding £21,000 of dirty cash for a drug gang behind a £7bn racket to import cocaine, heroin and cannabis into the country.

Officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) watched as a major figure in the outfit handed Imran Khaliq a bag containing £21,385 in a car park of McDonald's in Trafford Park in 2016. When cops swooped, they found the money in Khaliq's Mercedes.

Today (Wednesday, September 10) - almost a decade on and after the gang's bosses were handed long jail sentences last year - Khaliq, 46, from Whalley Range, south Manchester, appeared in court.

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He was shown mercy by a judge who heard about his deteriorating health. Khaliq was seen by NCA off

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