Authorities announced Wednesday that an elderly man who used his 2010 lottery winnings to run a drug empire from his cottage alongside his son and two accomplices, has been sentenced to jail.
John Eric Spiby, 80, was sentenced to 16 years in prison in England after an investigation uncovered counterfeit pills worth up to $400 million, Greater Manchester Police said.
His son, John Colin Spiby, 37, was sentenced to nine years.
“They operated a fully industrialized drug manufacturing business capable of producing millions of counterfeit tablets containing a highly dangerous substance,” Alex Brown, detective inspector of the Serious Organized Crime Group that led the investigation, said in a statement.
“The volume of tablets we recovered — along with the sophisticated machinery — demonstrated how deeply embedded this group was
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