The gang sold crack cocaine and heroin through Liverpool, Hampshire and Plymouth, police say.

Drugs estimated by Police Scotland at the time to be worth £1.5m were seized in Peterhead.

Police have described Emanuele Gregorini as "the head of the Italian mafia Latin America".

The Royal Court hears the trio wanted to become the island's main suppliers of cocaine.

The gang had a turnover of up to £4,000 per day from selling heroin, cocaine and cannabis, police say.

Quentin Sommerville gains access to a cartel's operation as the US grapples with hundreds of thousands of opioid deaths.

Gardaí searched a business in Drogheda and two residential properties in Drogheda and north Dublin on Wednesday.

Duterte, who led a "drug war" that killed thousands, was arrested for alleged crimes against humanity.