Gangster Jamie ‘Iceman’ Stevenson masterminded the plot to smuggle cocaine from South America to Scotland.
A Scottish gangster who masterminded a plot to smuggle cocaine worth £100m from South America in boxes of bananas has been jailed for 20 years.
Stevenson had also planned to flood Scotland with millions of Etizolam tablets, also known as street valium, from a factory in Kent. Last month Stevenson admitted his role in producing and supplying Etizolam and smuggling a tonne of cocaine - which police estimated would have been worth £100m on the streets – into the UK.
The drugs operation, which spanned the UK, Spain, Ecuador and Abu Dhabi, had been targeted by police in an inquiry which was named Operation Pepperoni. The National Crime Agency said Stevenson continued to direct the importation of cocaine into the UK from abroad.
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