# Liverpool council manager jailed for selling fake permits to cannabis gang

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/corrupt-council-official-who-raked-in-20000-as-inside-man-for-21million-great-albanian-mains-robbery-drug-gang-is-jailed-for-three-years/
- Published: 2026-11-11T00:02:18+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T00:12:24+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16282191/Corrupt-council-official-inside-man-mains-robbery-jailed.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Health, Medicine, World

## Key points

- Council manager jailed for selling fake roadworks permits.
- The permits helped a gang divert power to cannabis farms.
- The wider operation involved 100 farms across 32 police areas.

## Summary

A Liverpool City Council manager, Alan Hunter, has been jailed for three years for supplying fake roadworks permits to a criminal network in exchange for more than £20,000. The permits helped crews posing as utility workers divert electricity to cannabis farms, allowing illegal activity to go undetected and exposing the public to dangerous cable work.

The wider operation, dubbed the Great Albanian mains robbery, allegedly helped produce at least £21 million worth of drugs. It spanned at least four years, 32 police force areas and 100 cannabis farms; eight men were jailed last year, and three others received sentences totalling almost nine years alongside Hunter. The network came to light after police found cannabis plants worth £1.2 million in an abandoned shop in Bangor in January 2023.

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