An EncroChat drug boss said he made £300,000 in two months but 'lost the lot' when it was stolen.
Bradley Luxton claimed he was dealing 25 kilos of cocaine every week for the two months as part of a deal.
He said he was "robbed twice" and now "bad debts were a nightmare".
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Despite this claim, the 34-year-old admitted to conspiracy to supply 31 kilos of cocaine in total.
The dad said he 'remained in the game' after £380,000 worth of drugs was stolen and he had to repay the debt to 'TopsKing'.
Judge David Aubrey, QC, calculated in a hearing last week, that with a kilo of cocaine at a wholesale value of £30,000 "that would mean the quantity of drugs stolen was about 12 kilos".
Luxton also admitted conspiracy to supply 200 tablets of MDMA, 14 grams of ketamine, 51 kilos of cannabis and four kilos of heroin.
He also admitted conspiracy to convert criminal property by ploughing his drug dealing funds into a conversion on his home.
Luxton kept the EncroChat handle 'SoupHedge' between March and May 2020 and the handle 'MerrySword' between June 5 and 13 of the same year.
Documents provided to Liverpool Crown Court detailed the extent of Luxton's illicit dealings and in one message to 'BossApe', his contact in Bournemouth, he said had been "involved in this for 10 years" and "everyone around him has got jail".
On the same evening on April 26 last year he told 'BossApe' he was "starting to to think that the cocaine game is a load of s***”.
But when he was asked if he was going to stop, he replied no and said he will "continue to work with his mate because it will be worth it".
He went on to tell 'BossApe' he was "doing 25 kilos of cocaine every week for two months on a deal, but in one month he was robbed twice and bad debts were a nightmare".
In a conversation with 'Sneakystem' 10 days earlier Luxton said he had "done £300,000 of cocaine before Christmas but then lost the lot" and said now he only wanted to risk £70,000 to £80,000 at one time because he can "handle those losses".
Luxton had two EncroChat phones and operated under the names 'SoupHedge' and 'MerrySword'.
Following the EncroChat hack he joked that they would "need loads of Skys" - an alternative platform to EncroChat.
He stopped using the phones after learning of the hack, but kept hold of them at his home in Birch Avenue, Upton.
During a police raid in March this year officers found the phones, exposing his secret drug dealer life.
Police discovered Luxton dealt drugs across the UK including to Bournemouth, Leeds, Stoke, Cornwall, Sheffield, Watford, Bournemouth, Chester and Tyneside.
Luxton has 34 previous convictions for eight offences between 2006 and 2010 including possession with intent to supply cocaine in 2008 for which he was handed a suspended sentence.
Frank Dillon, defending, said letters from his mum and ex partner gave a "positive side" to him and "speak of the effect on his family of his incarceration".
He said the references show Luxton "can do better in the future".
Mr Dillon said Luxton had been engaged in a mentoring programme while in custody and asked the judge to consider the current impact of the pandemic on conditions in prison.
Luxton was jailed for 16 years on Friday (August 6).
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