‘Mr Coke’ gets £1m bill

A cocaine baron who ran a £60m drug smuggling operation from his Spanish villa has been ordered to pay back £1m. Paul Monk, 58, spent 20 years shipping huge quantities of drugs into Britain from Spain, with lorries carrying 110 kilos of cocaine a time. Armed police arrested him at his luxury Costa Blanca villa in April 2015, ambushing him as he instructed workers laying marble tiles around his vast swimming pool. Officers found accounting notes about the supply of…

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