Prosecutors claim James White pocketed millions heading the gang, he is currently serving nearly 10 years behind bars after being convicted of directing serious and organised crime.
A Lanarkshire gangster "rich enough to buy out Rolex" made more than £126million from his life of crime, it's claimed.
Lord Colbeck, who imposed a jail term of nine years and 10 months, said White's offending was "of the utmost seriousness, involving a degree of criminality seldom seen by the courts in Scotland”.Legal papers lodged by the Crown with the court claim he made £126 million from his crime. The papers also state that prosecutors reckon they’ve identified £118,649 of White’s ill gotten gains that could be confiscated.
White pleaded guilty in June to directing serious and organised crime, from May 2013 until March this year. Prosecutor Scott McKenzie said the gang ran a criminal operation on an international scale. Join Glasgow Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. The court heard how hidden spaces in the truck had been constructed to conceal 90 taped blocks of cocaine. It emerged 16 other shipments to Rochdale had been made over the previous two years.
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