Drug runner who flooded Scotland with £400k cannabis made to pay back just £3k

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A drug runner who flooded Scotland with nearly £400,000 worth of cannabis has been ordered to hand back just £3,000 profit he made.Press operator Lukas Losinski - who was jailed for 18 months - has been ordered to pay £3,000 under Proceeds of Crime legislation.Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith granted the confiscation order at Dundee Sheriff Court and gave Losinski a year to pay it back to allow him to get a job after his prison release.

The press operator was jailed at the same court in July after he admitted bringing almost 40 kilos of cannabis north of the border.Father-of-one Losinski was responsible for bringing drugs worth nearly £400,000 to Scotland during a series of runs from Blackburn in England.

He said he started doing drug runs to make quick money after being asked to be a courier by a random man he met in a nightclub.The court was told that Losinski - who initially claimed he did not know what was in the packages - was being paid £500 for each run he completed.Police Scotland got a tip-off about the illicit cross-border runs and found cannabis worth £78,110 in Losinski's home when they raided it on 19 January last year.Losinski, 35, Findale Street, Dundee, admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis at his home between 1 October 2022 and 19 January 2023.Sheriff Niven-Smith said: "He must have known it was illegal.

He clearly knew he was involved in an illegal supply chain. On the journey he detected the smell of cannabis from the box."Police recovered eight slightly under-weight kilo packages of cannabis and I'm told that if they were sold 'as seen' they would fetch up to £6,500 each."If broken down into the lowest street deal the drugs recovered from him would have been worth £78,110.