'Holiday' drug gang jailed after £2.5m cocaine sting - Manchester Evening News

'Holiday' drug gang jailed after £2.5m cocaine sting - Manchester Evening News: "Vaidas Skrupkis, Kestuist Jurevicus and Martynas Samulionis agreed to bring back 15kg of the drug from an all-expenses-paid holiday in the Dominican Republic.
The trip was arranged and paid for by ‘fixer’ Nana ‘Chairman’ Gyebi, from Gorton, whose real name and date of birth are unknown to the authorities.
Gyebi sent Emma Noack to act as minder to the three Lithuanians.
Noack and the three couriers even posed for party snaps in the Dominican Republic to make it look as though they were regular holidaymakers. But the gang were caught at Manchester Airport last September after a surveillance operation. The three Lithuanians were arrested as they tried to clear customs and Gyebi and Noack were arrested as they met outside.
At a Manchester Crown Court hearing Noack, a mum-of-one from Germany, was jailed for 15 years.
Noack, 37, received a longer sentence than Gyebi because she did not plead guilty and maintained her innocence at trial.
Gyebi, who is believed to be 48, of Sidney Street, Gorton, was jailed for 12 years after pleading guilty.
Skrupkis, 31, Jurevicus, 20, and Samulionis, 24, who are all of no fixed address, also pleaded guilty and were locked up for nine years and three months each."