He called himself 'the graft master' and used bouncy castles as front for his crimes – Liverpool Echo Skip to main content A drug trafficker called himself "the graft master" as he plotted to launder dirty money through his bouncy castle hire business. Anthony Dean's secret identity on encrypted communications platform EncroChat was revealed thanks to an incriminating selfie which he sent to a contact. Police then seized luxury watches and revealed a further multi-million pound scheme, which he had hatched in partnership with an associate known only as "El Pandrino", when officers pulled over his BMW. His surreptitious activities also saw him work alongside fellow service user William Swann, who plotted to source a "brand new" firearm in order to avoid being linked to an earlier shooting. Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Friday, that Dean utilised the EncroChat handle "OctoJam", with his co-defendant going by the username "OctoRain". Conversations and notes on their accounts, discovered when the network was infiltrated by French police in 2020, revealed the "sheer quantities and prices they were dealing in", amounting to 13.5kg of heroin, 13kg of cocaine and 62kg of cannabis over a four-month period.
Published: October 3, 2025 3:10 pm
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