Crime boss Jamie 'Iceman' Stevenson boasted worldwide drug cartel would earn 'life changing' cash
dailyrecord.co.ukCrime boss Jamie 'Iceman' Stevenson boasted how his worldwide drug smuggling ring would rake in "life changing" amounts of cash.
Stevenson was back in the dock today/yesterday as prosecutors revealed the scale of the huge trafficking operation. The 59-year-old had last week pleaded guilty to trying to import £76m of cocaine from Ecuador stashed inside boxes of bananas before the haul was intercepted by law authorities in Dover.
Stevenson was also in charge of a street Valium 'pill factory' which a judge heard could churn out 250,000 tablets per hour.
The gangster was again joined at the High Court in Glasgow with five associates who also admitted involvement. Prosecutor Alex Prentice KC revealed during the hearing - in a 13-page narrative of facts - the inner workings of the mob and how the operation was smashed when the law authorities hacked into the EncroChat phone network favoured by criminals.Stevenson's right-hand man in the cocaine operation was 32 year-old convicted thug Lloyd Cross.
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