James Stevenson, 59, has been jailed for 20 years
A notorious crime boss who masterminded a plot to smuggle £100m of cocaine from Ecuador in boxes of bananas has been jailed.
They contained cocaine with a purity of 73%, weighing almost a tonne and with a street value of £76 million. The plot was smashed by French law enforcement officers who infiltrated the encrypted EncroChat network in April 2020. Messages suggested Cross and Stevenson met in a park to discuss plans in April 2020, while Bilsland arranged banana consignments and colluded with Cross to use their businesses to fund the importation of drugs, with recovery vehicles used to deliver and collect cash, the court heard.
Stevenson and Carbin were both jailed in 2007 for organised crime, and the National Crime Agency named the older man as one of the UK's most wanted men in 2022.
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