A MEMBER of an organised crime group who made more than £200,000 from his criminal activities has been ordered to hand over £40,643 to the authorities.
Prosecutors used proceeds of crime legislation to force David Mullarkey, 48, to hand the sum over on Monday morning.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Mullarkey made a total of £209,586 during his life of crime but only had £40,643 available at this point in time.
Mullarkey, of Stepps, North Lanarkshire, was arrested after police seized £10 million of high-purity cocaine following a raid at the premises of a kitchen firm at an industrial estate in Hillington, Renfrewshire.
Detectives found that Mullarkey and his accomplices James Davidson, Ellis Hardy and Wayne Smith were members of a gang which was supplying the drug.
The drugs were smuggled in an HGV lorry supposedly transporting Belgian waffles and were to be transferred to a modified van for onward transportation when they were intercepted.
Mullarkey, Davidson, 58, of Cooperage Court, Yoker, Glasgow, Hardy, 43, and Smith, 41, both of Mitcham, in Surrey, earlier admitted facilitating the transportation and distribution of cocaine in June 2019.
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