A trainee employment lawyer and his drug dealer business partner who used the encrypted phone network EncroChat to supply ketamine and cocaine have been jailed.
Neema Seifzadeh, 27, used the illicit communications network to help move £1.5million in cash and supplied 20kg of ketamine to clubbers over a ten week period.
The company managing director's son was arrested after police infiltrated the EncroChat network and were able to access his criminal conversations.
They found he was working in tandem with drug trafficker Jason Musgrove, also 27, who had ketamine debts of up to £90,000.
Police raided the luxury quayside apartments of both men near Manchester and seized a haul of Rolex watches, a £2,000 mountain bike, money and designer clothing.
Law school graduate Seifzadeh, who worked on a helpline giving pro bono legal advice on unfair dismissal and redundancy issues, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply ketamine and was sentenced to six years behind bars at Manchester Crown Court.
Musgrove, who lived in a £350,000 flat in Salford Quays, was jailed for 16-and-a-half years after he admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and ketamine and plotting to supply a Skorpion machine gun pistol.
Neema Seifzadeh (left), 27, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply ketamine and was sentenced to six years behind bars. Jason Musgrove (right), 27, was jailed for 16-and-a-half years after he admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and ketamine and plotting to supply a Skorpion machine gun pistol
Both men had no previous history of trouble with the police.
The pair became business partners in 2020 after Musgrove decided to sell cocaine to pay off his ketamine dealers.
Police infiltrated their EncroChat messages to find them communicating with a network of suppliers.
Musgrove, who called himself 'Vic Tyson', was in contact with 16 criminal associates including suppliers of drugs and mixing agents and couriers and arranged for deliveries to be made by unsuspecting UPS drivers.
Harriet Lavin prosecuting said. 'Both men dealt with at least 14 customers and on occasions were in contact with those able to supply and top up encrypted telephones. The conspiracy was well established and involved those with close pre-existing and trusted relationships.
'The extent of conversations prove their involvement in the high level supply of kilo quantities cocaine for Musgrove, and ketamine for both using a number of known couriers provided with unique passwords to ensure the integrity of the exchanges of cash and drugs.
'The conversations recorded only give an insight into the
