Drugs baron Curtis Warren, thought to be one of Britain's richest criminals, has been jailed for 13 years.
Warren, 46, and five members of his gang were convicted last October of a plot to smuggle £1 million worth of cannabis into Jersey, the Channel Islands.
The former Liverpool street dealer, who became Interpol's most wanted man, appeared by video link from Belmarsh Prison in South East London for his sentencing at the Royal Court in St Helier.
Warren, nicknamed Cocky by the criminal underworld, is the only drug dealer to have appeared on the Sunday Times Rich List. He showed no reaction as Judge Sir Richard Tucker passed sentence.
The judge said: "We do not sentence him because of his record or notoriety. Nevertheless he has been shown to be the mastermind behind the planned importation."
Turning to Warren, Sir Richard added: "After being released from prison in Holland it was a very short space of time before you embarked on this drug trafficking enterprise. It was you who provided the contacts in Holland and the source of supply."
The judge, sitting with a panel of five jurats - retired members of the public who set the sentence - added that it ought to be known that Jersey courts impose severe sentences for drugs offences.
The gang planned to buy 180kg (400lb) of the drug in Amsterdam and transport the consignment by car to the coast of Normandy, France, where it was to be placed on a boat to Jersey.
Had the plot, in June and July 2007, succeeded, Warren would have taken a sizeable share of the haul.
The trial was told the street value of drugs in Jersey is three times higher in than in the UK and the gang expected to make handsome profits.
