Daily Mirror

Drug empire ‘was run like a real firm’

- BY JOHN SCHEERHOUT

A DRUG lord who ran his £32million empire like a legitimate business is facing a long jail sentence.

Marcus Callaghan, 34, used expensive corporate entertainm­ent to thank his clientele for their custom.

Police who raided two properties found heroin, cocaine, cannabis, £200,000 and debtor lists.

A 9mm machine pistol was found in a later search.

Manchester-based Callaghan’s perks included rooms at Edinburgh’s Principal Hotel for New Year 2017 and spending £395 on a magnum of vodka and bottle of champagne.

Manchester Minshull Street crown court convicted Callaghan, of Hulme, and three gang members on various charges. Sentencing is on September 18.

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KINGPIN Marcus Callaghan

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