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'Dial a drug' app used to flood Scotland with heroin and cocaine shut down by Russian tech firm

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drug” racket exposed by the Daily Record.We revealed yesterday how Telegram, owned by tech tycoon Pavel Durov, had been used by dealers in Scotland to flog heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy, high-strength cannabis and prescription pills.They tried to hide their trade behind the app’s end-to-end encryption – but we unearthed a chat group called weed/coke/420/pills/lsd/glasgow/uk that included price lists and pictures of the drugs available.The Scottish drug selling group had more than 14,700 members.Telegram chiefs closed down the dealer channel within hours of our story being published.Former Glasgow MP and drugs campaigner Paul Sweeney welcomed news of the shutdown but said more needed to be done to combat drug dealers.He said: “While any efforts.

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