A gang involved in the supply of cocaine in Newport in an organised crime network have been jailed for a total of 61 years.
Anthony McNamee, 30, Ryan McNamee, 24, Neil Seer, 33, Sanjeev Boora, 44, Jonathan Appleton, 32, Gary Taylor, 29, Nicholas Moss, 45, and Darren Dally, 34, were part of a group which operated on a hierarchical basis.
They supplied directly to drug users through a series of lines run by street dealers and supplied wholesale amounts to dealers in their own right.
Anthony McNamee played the leading role in the operation while Dally laundered vast sums of profit through his business Torfaen Car Sales.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday heard the defendants were arrested by officers from Gwent Police working under Operation Divide, which used police surveillance culminating in raids in November.
Seven of the defendants were charged with conspiring to supply Class A drugs while Dally was charged with money laundering. They were found guilty following a trial.
Anthony McNamee, of Nelson Drive, Newport was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Ryan McNamee, of Dunstable Road, Newport, was sentenced to seven years and four months imprisonment.
Dally, of Edward German Crescent, Newport, was sentenced to five years behind bars.
Seer, of Britten Close, Newport, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment.
Boora, of Lynton Road South, Gravesend, Kent, was locked up for six years and eight months.
Appleton, of Balfe Road, Newport, was jailed for six years.
Taylor, of Risca Road, Newport, was sentenced to six years behind bars.
Moss, of Wye Crescent, Newport, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Speaking after the hearing detective inspector Andrew Tuck of Gwent Police said: "These sentences are the culmination of over a year’s worth of meticulous work to disrupt, dismantle, and bring to justice to this organised crime group.
"Criminals involved in serious organised crime are a daily threat to our communities.
"The criminality associated with large-scale drug supply, [which] can include serious violence and fraud to name but a few, has enormous consequences in our communities – which far too often people don’t see as part of the bigger picture of serious organised crime.
"Seeing the huge wealth generated by criminals who can lead extravagant lifestyles can also be corrosive and dispiriting for our hard-working, law-abiding residents.
"The lengthy prison sentences these offenders will serve should act as warning to other criminals in the Gwent area that we are working to dismantle these most serious criminal networks and next time we could be coming to your door."
