Leading the hunt, Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook said: "We believe he was killed because he was about to expose a conspiracy to supply drugs, a criminal conspiracy involving a large amount of drugs.
"We think it was cocaine. We know that it was potentially a large scale drug distribution network that he was going to expose and he was killed because of that.
"We believe there was a link to police corruption. Mr Morgan's death was the obvious way to reduce the risk of it being exposed.
"We think it was cocaine. We know that it was potentially a large scale drug distribution network that he was going to expose and he was killed because of that.
"We believe there was a link to police corruption. Mr Morgan's death was the obvious way to reduce the risk of it being exposed.
On Thursday, The Guardian reported that Mr. Muranchak had apparently agreed to allow the two murder suspects in the case to use photographers and vans leased to the paper to spy on Detective Chief Superintendent David Cook, the lead detective.
The two men, private investigators named Jonathan Rees and Sid Fillery, were suspected of murdering their former partner, Daniel Morgan, who had been killed 15 years earlier. Their targeting of Mr. Cook included following him, his wife, and their children, trying to access his and his wife’s voice mail and obtaining personal details about him from police databases.
