The Glasgow Times
Jamie ‘Iceman’ Stevenson has admitted masterminding a worldwide multi-million pound drug cartel.
Stevenson dramatically entered guilty pleas on day five of the trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
It came two years after he was arrested while out jogging in the Netherlands following a massive manhunt to capture the 59-year-old and bring him to justice.
Almost £80m of cocaine was smuggled from South America inside what appeared to be shipments of bananas addressed to a fruit merchants in Glasgow.
Prosecutors said the huge trafficking operation spanned the UK, Spain, Ecuador, and the luxury Nurai Island Resort in Abu Dhabi.
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Stevenson was also central to a massive “pill factory” which churned out millions of street Valium tablets.
Stevenson was already one of Scotland’s most notorious gangland figures.
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He was charged in 2001 with the murder of his best man Tony McGovern but the case was later dropped.
Stevenson was then jailed for more than 12 years in 2007 after laundering more than £1m of dirty money.
He was freed in 2014, but soon returned to crime at a worldwide level.
The gangster and five associates are all now behind bars after being snared as part of the joint Police Scotland and National Crime Agency probe Operation Pepperoni.
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