Cryptocurrency: Four members of £5m drugs gang jailed

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Cryptocurrency: Four members of £5m drugs gang jailed
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A judge told cocaine dealer Amir Khan his criminality was 'truly staggering'.

Billingham, also of no fixed abode, was sentenced to 14 years and eight months.

Collins, 26, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to seven years and eight months for conspiracy to supply drugs and conspiracy to convert criminal property.Billingham's partner, Stacey Challenger, from Caerphilly, was sentenced to 12 months for her role in laundering more than £300,000 and conspiring to launder money using cryptocurrency.

Judge Jenkins said the mother of the couple's two-year-old son had gone into the gang with her eyes "wide open". When police raided the couple's Caerphilly home they found designer clothes worth more than £10,000, a money counting machine, and a Range Rover outside. The judge said: "What was a money counter doing in your possession? You were unemployed and living with a man who had no job."

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