The National Crime Agency worked relentlessly to trace Michael Paul Moogan, who was one of the UK’s most wanted men.
Moogan, 37, from Croxteth, Liverpool, fled in October 2013 after a raid on a cafe suspected of being a front for meetings between drug traffickers and cartels.
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