Two Merseyide men have been charged with drug offences after the National Crime Agency targeted a criminal organisation said be worth billions of pounds.
Thirteen men were held after coordinated drug raids across the country on Tuesday morning.
The NCA said they had targeted an organised crime group said to be importing heroin, cocaine and cannabis into the country through front companies - with drugs found hidden in lorries carrying vegetables.
The conspiracy was said to be worth billions.
Now the NCA have charged 13 men with drug offences, including two men from Merseyside.
Paul Green, 54, of Eccleston, St Helens , has been charged with four counts of conspiracy to import class A drugs and four counts of conspiracy to import class B drugs.
Andrew Reilly, 37, of Grange Park Road, St Helens, have been charged with two counts of conspiracy to import class A drugs and two counts of conspiracy to import class B drugs.
The NCA have also charged the following men with four counts of conspiracy to import class A drugs and four counts of conspiracy to import class B drugs.
They are: Sohail Quereshi of Wood Crescent, White City, London, Mohammed Ovais of Bournlee Avenue, Burnage, Manchester, Ghazanfar Mahmood , of Green Lane, Bolton, Ifthikar Hussain of Upland Grove, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Vojtech Dano of Vulcan Gardens, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and Ivan Turtak of Vulcan Gardens, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
The following men were charged with two counts of conspiracy to import class A drugs and two counts of conspiracy to import class B drugs.
They are: Khaleed Vazeer , of Westwood Avenue, Timperley, Manchester; Steven Martin of Chorley Old Road, Bolton, Mark Peers of Norbeck Close, Warrington, Paul Ruane , of Bewsey Rd, Warrington and Oliver Penter of Gladstone Street, Stockport.
The man are all set to appear at Manchester Magistrates' court today.
The four men and two women from the Netherlands, who were arrested in April by the Dutch National Police on European Arrest Warrants, are currently awaiting extradition to the UK.
